Elena Tudela

Graduated in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture at UNAM with a Merit Diploma and Master of Architecture in Urban Design in 2012 from the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. She is a PhD Candidate in Architecture at UNAM on resilient urban design. She is a professor at the Faculty of Architecture and tutor of the Postgraduate Program in Sustainability Sciences at UNAM in Mexico. She co-founded the Office of Urban Resilience ORU focused on urban design with emphasis on water infrastructure, landscape and public space. ORU received the Emerging Voices 2023 recognition from the Architectural League of New York. She was urban design coordinator for the Quebradora Water Park Project (IIS UNAM) in Iztapalapa that received the 2017 Regional Gold and Gold in the Global category in 2018 from Lafarge Holcim Sustainable Awards. She worked at the General Directorate of Strategic Projects of the Secretariat of Urban Development and Housing (SEDUVI) and at the Public Space Authority of Mexico City. She was co-curator of the Mexican Pavilion at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition Venice Biennale 2020-21 together with Isadora Hastings and Mauricio Rocha.
She is a member of the Public Space Advisory Council and the Resilience Advisory Council of the Mexico City government and was part of the National System of Art Creators of Fonca / Conaculta in Mexico from 2021 to 2023. In 2023 she was accepted as a full member of the National Academy of Architecture, Mexico Valley Chapter.