Space
for
architecture

LIGA, Space for Architecture is an independent platform founded in Mexico City in 2011 that promotes Latin American contemporary architecture through exhibitions, conferences and workshops.

Schedules

VISITA LIGA, ESPACIO PARA ARQUITECTURA

Lunes a Jueves de 10 a.m. a 6 p.m.

Viernes de 10 a.m. a 3 p.m.

A partir del 15 de abril, sábados de 11 a.m. a 6 p.m.

IG:@ligadf o info@liga-df.com

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Info

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.


 

WHERE WE ARE

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.
 

Ecobici:

Station 135 Álvaro Obregón-Morelia
Station 138 Guanajuato-Frontera

Metrobus:

Line 3, Station Jardín Pushkin

Metro:

Line 3, Station Niños Héroes

 

Tel: +52(55) 55 64 03 33

info@liga-df.com

Team

Executive Directors and Curators:

Carlos Bedoya, Ruth Estévez, Wonne Ickx, Víctor Jaime and Abel Perles

General Coordinator:

Frida Mouchlian

Press and Web:

Arturo Arrieta

Aliados

Allies

Tatiana Bilbao

TEN Arquitectos

Max Von Werz

Verónica González

Yuri Zagorín

Ignacio Urquiza

Alonso de Garay

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