Space
for
architecture
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
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.
Calle Doctor Erazo 176,
Col. Doctores, Del. Cuauhtémoc
CP 06720 Ciudad de México
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
#arquitecturaexpuesta
#exposedarchitecture
The Casa-Jardín Ortega (Ortega House-Garden) is both a house and a museum where the same family since the 40s has lived until this day, maintaining the house in Luis Barragán’s original design from 1942-1947. Later, he left this house to create his own home in the neighboring property in the neighborhood of Tacubaya, which is considered today to be one of his biggest realized works, forming part of an iconic node in cultural and architectural heritage within the city as recognized by UNESCO.
Hand in hand with LIGA and the Ortega family, Lutron have been given the task of utilizing light and technology as tools to explore the relationship between the interiors, patios, and gardens of the Casa-Jardín Ortega, blurring the lines defining these spaces at nightfall. Lighting designers and architects of the current generation experiment with a different perspective and present these spaces as open, graphic-gallery rooms by testing and breaking down the phenomenological limits of the colors and forms of both architecture and landscape with modern technology.
LIGA, Space for Architecture, is a not-for-profit initiative that gives thanks to and includes the creativity and enthusiasm of invited designers, whose commitments to preserving the legacy of Barragán contributed to this project. The funds raised will be allocated to the conservation and maintenance of Casa Ortega, a project considered to be the best kept secret of the works of Luis Barragán.
Wednesday, November 18th.
5 pm LA / 6pm DVR / 7 pm CDMX / 8 pm NYC
A conversation about the “Mother House” by Independent Architecture between Paul Andersen and Wonne Ickx.
Wednesday, November 11th.
5 pm LA / 7 pm CDMX / 8 pm NYC
A conversation about the “Vault House” by Johnston Marklee between Sharon Johnston and Wonne Ickx.
Wednesday, November 4th.
6 pm LA / 7 pm CDMX / 8 pm NYC
A conversation about “House #10” by MOS Architects between Hilary Sample, Michael Meredith and Wonne Ickx.
Wednesday October 28th
5pm LA / 7 pm CDMX / 8 pm NYC
A conversation about the “HAUS GABLES” by MALL (@jbonn90057 ) between Jennifer Bonner and Wonne Ickx.
Wednesday October 21st
5pm LA / 7 pm CDMX / 8 pm NYC
A conversation about the “ARDMORE HOUSE” by Kwong Von Glinow between Alison Von Glinow, Lap Chi Kwong and Wonne Ickx.
Free entrance.
Saturday, 15 February, 2020
Walk: Mouth of the Gran Canal (Great Channel) at Desagüe
Guides: Mariana Mañón, Manolo Larrosa y Roberto Michelsen (Panósmico)
A trip to accompany Panósmico on one of their explorations of the Gran Canal of Desagüe in Mexico City. During the walk, the guides collected information tangible and intangible, from samples of soil/land and water to photographs of landscape comparison. The participants made a log about the current and historic infrastructure of the channel.
Saturday, 25 January, 12:00pm
A conversation between Tania Candiani, Adriana Salazar, and Ruth Estévez about their artistic and interdisciplinary projects and research around aquatic ecosystems. The three invitees will speak on projects where the conjunction of art and ecology open new forms of investigation, exchange, and production.
Thurday, 19 December, 19:00 hrs
Iñigo Malvido, collaborator of Circuito’s Hydrographic Auscultation (CAH) project of the collective Panósmico, carries out a lecture on the novel, AY AGÜITA, which combines subjective thoughts, group blogs, and diverse landscapes in a personal and free narrative.
Thursday, January 31, 7pm
Book Launch: “A House Is Not Just a House”. A book published by Columbia Books on Architecture and the City, New York.
“A House is Not Just a House” revisits the work of Tatiana Bilbao concerned with the subject matter of housing. Her work constructs arguments on the production of domestic spaces, in the manner of both expansive and minimal forms, inseparable from the context where they are located and rooted in the fundamental principles of living. The book includes reflections from colleagues and academics such as Amale Andraos, Gabriela Etchegaray, Hilary Sample, and Ivonne Santoyo-Orozco.
The presentation of this book at LIGA unites the speakers in a debate that serves to understand the background and work of Tatiana Bilbao as well as deepen the conversation about social housing. One such relevant project is that of the recent exposition inaugurated at LIGA titled “Trayectorias de un panel” (Trajectories of a Panel), on the topic of the geopolitical history of housing in Chile.
A House is Not Just a House is part of the series Transcripts on Housing, of the series GSAPP Transcripts, in collaboration with the M.Arch Housing Studios at Columbia University’s GSAPP.
ABOUT THE RAMBLE INTERLUDES. The Ramble Interludes cycle proposes a series of walks; each one will depart from a space that have a special connection with art and the city and will focus on a specific urban context, a certain neighborhood. Representatives of ten different spaces will guide subjective visits to the urban surroundings the building belongs to; they will point out spontaneous situations that have sparked their interest or anonymous architectural landmarks. This series of encounters thus sets out to investigate the relation between the architecture of the city and its users through case studies where different communities and collectives are connected with their districts thanks to cultural programmes.
ABOUT THE RAMBLE INTERLUDES. The Ramble Interludes cycle proposes a series of walks; each one will depart from a space that have a special connection with art and the city and will focus on a specific urban context, a certain neighborhood. Representatives of ten different spaces will guide subjective visits to the urban surroundings the building belongs to; they will point out spontaneous situations that have sparked their interest or anonymous architectural landmarks. This series of encounters thus sets out to investigate the relation between the architecture of the city and its users through case studies where different communities and collectives are connected with their districts thanks to cultural programmes.
ABOUT THE RAMBLE INTERLUDES. The Ramble Interludes cycle proposes a series of walks; each one will depart from a space that have a special connection with art and the city and will focus on a specific urban context, a certain neighborhood.
Representatives of ten different spaces will guide subjective visits to the urban surroundings the building belongs to; they will point out spontaneous situations that have sparked their interest or anonymous architectural landmarks.
This series of encounters thus sets out to investigate the relation between the architecture of the city and its users through case studies where different communities and collectives are connected with their districts thanks to cultural programmes.
ABOUT THE RAMBLE INTERLUDES. The Ramble Interludes cycle proposes a series of walks; each one will depart from a space that have a special connection with art and the city and will focus on a specific urban context, a certain neighborhood.
Representatives of ten different spaces will guide subjective visits to the urban surroundings the building belongs to; they will point out spontaneous situations that have sparked their interest or anonymous architectural landmarks.
This series of encounters thus sets out to investigate the relation between the architecture of the city and its users through case studies where different communities and collectives are connected with their districts thanks to cultural programmes.
ABOUT STUDIO INTERLUDES. How does architectural space influence artistic production—and vice-versa? This is the question to be examined by means of a series of visits to the homes and studios of leading Mexican artists. The investigation will address the connections between a spatial and sensorial context—visual, auditory, material—and the work that is conceived or created within it. The discussion will successively advance more deeply, over several months, into the creative atmosphere in which a number of a key artists produce their work. Each event literally evolves in situ, with a specific character arising from the personality of the space visited, and of the person who inhabits it.
In this way, this series establishes a conceptual link between the traditional journeys made by modern architects to visit emblematic works from antiquity, and the contemporary practice of studio visits.
ABOUT STUDIO INTERLUDES. How does architectural space influence artistic production—and vice-versa? This is the question to be examined by means of a series of visits to the homes and studios of leading Mexican artists. The investigation will address the connections between a spatial and sensorial context—visual, auditory, material—and the work that is conceived or created within it. The discussion will successively advance more deeply, over several months, into the creative atmosphere in which a number of a key artists produce their work. Each event literally evolves in situ, with a specific character arising from the personality of the space visited, and of the person who inhabits it. In this way, this series establishes a conceptual link between the traditional journeys made by modern architects to visit emblematic works from antiquity, and the contemporary practice of studio visits.
ABOUT STUDIO INTERLUDES. How does architectural space influence artistic production—and vice-versa? This is the question to be examined by means of a series of visits to the homes and studios of leading Mexican artists. The investigation will address the connections between a spatial and sensorial context—visual, auditory, material—and the work that is conceived or created within it. The discussion will successively advance more deeply, over several months, into the creative atmosphere in which a number of a key artists produce their work. Each event literally evolves in situ, with a specific character arising from the personality of the space visited, and of the person who inhabits it. In this way, this series establishes a conceptual link between the traditional journeys made by modern architects to visit emblematic works from antiquity, and the contemporary practice of studio visits.
ABOUT STUDIO INTERLUDES. How does architectural space influence artistic production—and vice-versa? This is the question to be examined by means of a series of visits to the homes and studios of leading Mexican artists. The investigation will address the connections between a spatial and sensorial context—visual, auditory, material—and the work that is conceived or created within it. The discussion will successively advance more deeply, over several months, into the creative atmosphere in which a number of a key artists produce their work. Each event literally evolves in situ, with a specific character arising from the personality of the space visited, and of the person who inhabits it. In this way, this series establishes a conceptual link between the traditional journeys made by modern architects to visit emblematic works from antiquity, and the contemporary practice of studio visits.
Studio Visit: Pedro Reyes and Carla Fernández House Studio
Guides: Carla Fernández and Pedro Reyes
ABOUT UNDISCIPLINED INTERLUDES: This cycle explores the relationships that spawn in the intersection of disciplines and collaborative work. Through the work of invited authors in Theater, Cinema, Literature and Visual Arts, a series of events around space appropriation are proposed. The encounters on this cycle are interventions in themselves which allow the artists to test and expand their practice from analytic, thoughtful and creative methods similar to the processes of architectural projection.
ABOUT UNDISCIPLINED INTERLUDES: The Undisciplined Interludes cycle explores the relationships that spawn in the intersection of disciplines and collaborative work. Through the work of invited authors in Theater, Cinema, Literature and Visual Arts, a series of events around space appropriation are proposed. The encounters on this cycle are interventions in themselves which allow the artists to test and expand their practice from analytic, thoughtful and creative methods similar to the processes of architectural projection.