LIGA was established in 2011 as an initiative by Carlos Bedoya, Ruth Estévez, Wonne Ickx, Víctor Jaime and Abel Perles to create an exhibition space for reflecting on architecture as a discursive practice. Many ideas and approaches have driven LIGA over the years since: to present in Mexico the work of architects from the rest of Latin America and to expand frontiers with a gaze that looks to the South; to establish relationships between the different practices and generate an archive of the young studios and architects in the region, identifying the characteristics of Latin American architecture, without looking for a unifying style or making generalizations.
Thanks to the numerous activities we organize, at LIGA we connect with other disciplines, independent spaces and organizations, proposing a forum of many voices; we attend to both formal ideas related to design processes and to socio-political problems. LIGA tries out new methodologies to respond with theoretical and factual tools to the context we inhabit.
On the basis of these premises LIGA has gradually evolved: a place that raises questions about how architecture is exhibited, as well as a space for the production of knowledge, dialogue and informal discussion, with the aim of fostering encounters between those who like to meet with friends and discuss projects.
In 2018, LIGA is leaving its gallery space on Insurgentes Avenue to open a new venue in the Doctores neighborhood, one of the city’s most vibrant neighborhoods, which combines cutting-edge projects with traditional workshops and spaces. In this new phase, LIGA continues with its monographic exhibitions dedicated to the work of young Latin American architects, while incorporating a new dimension with architects and researchers, writers, curators and academics who present their research in an exhibition format. In this way, LIGA is reasserting its interest in new forms of making exhibitions, and the definition of architecture as an experimental and social science.
Dr. Erazo 176
Col. Doctores
CDMX
For seven years since its foundation in 2011, LIGA occupied a minimal gallery of just 16 m2 on the ground floor of a building by Augusto Álvarez and Sordo Madaleno, on Insurgentes Avenue. On September 19, 2017 Mexico City was severely damaged by an earthquake and we had to abandon our offices. This natural phenomenon led us to look for a new space in the Doctores neighborhood and to rethink our undertaking as a cultural space, in a city that is riven by radical geographical, political and social changes.
Station 135 Álvaro Obregón-Morelia
Station 138 Guanajuato-Frontera
Line 3, Station Jardín Pushkin
Line 3, Station Niños Héroes
Tel: +52(55) 55 64 03 33
info@liga-df.com
Carlos Bedoya, Ruth Estévez, Wonne Ickx, Víctor Jaime and Abel Perles
Frida Mouchlian
Arturo Arrieta
ALLIES
Tatiana Bilbao
TEN Arquitectos
Max Von Werz
Verónica González
Yuri Zagorín
Ignacio Urquiza
Mauricio Rocha
Fernando Sordo Madaleno
A911
Jorge Hernández de la Garza
S-AR
Gabriela Carrillo
Bernardo Quinzaños
Isaac Broid
La Invencible
FOUNDATIONS
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Art and Architecture
MEDIA
Arquine
Archdaily
INSTITUTIONS
Fundación de Arquitectura Tapatía Luis Barragán
Centro para la Cultura Arquitectónica y Urbana (CCAU)
Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura
Buró Buró
CORPORATIONS
Gerdau Corsa
CREST
Lutron
Grupo Habita
La Invencible
ReUrbano
CEMEX
Comex
Novaceramic
Reycox
Saint-Gobain
Mezcal Unión
