Campanini Josefina Sposito, view of “Al otro lado,” LIGA 37, 2021. Digital photograph. Photo: Arturo-Arrieta
In Between Projects celebrates LIGA’s fifteen years of work through exhibitions, interludes, and the LIGA-ARCHIVES project, an initiative that explores historical archives related to Latin American design and architecture. In a sort of collaboration exercise, the 40 offices that have participated in LIGA were invited to select an image from LIGA's digital documentation archive and write a brief essay about it, in order to question the narrative possibilities of this material. Through this ambitious collective action, the book not only documents the history of LIGA during its fifteen years, but also reveals the connections, issues, and conversations that have emerged over the years, creating a visual and textual narrative that transcends the exhibitions.
Wonne Ickx studied civil engineering and architecture at the University of Ghent, Belgium and urban studies at the Centre for Metropolitan Studies (CEMET) in Guadalajara, Mexico. In 2006, he founded PRODUCTORA in Mexico City, together with Abel Perles, Carlos Bedoya, and Victor Jaime. PRODUCTORA has received many awards for its work, including the prestigious Oscar Niemeyer Prize for Latin American Architecture. Ickx has taught architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology, the University of California, Los Angeles, Rice University, and several universities in Mexico, and is currently visiting lecturer at Princeton University. He is cofounder of LIGA—Space for Architecture, an independent platform that promotes Latin American architecture in Mexico City since 2011. He publishes his writing frequently and is part of the editorial board of Arquine, the leading architecture magazine in Latin America, since 2010.
Frida Mouchlian is an architect trained at the Polytechnic University of Madrid (ETSAM) and art historian with a focus on contemporary Latin American architecture. She holds a master's in art studies from the Universidad Iberoamericana, where she explored the work of Max Borges for the Cuban elite. Mouchlian is the general director of LIGA—Space for Architecture, leading its efforts to promote emerging Latin American architecture through exhibitions and research. With experience in project management and academic contributions, she actively engages in curating, teaching, and publishing on architectural topics.
Moisés Puente is an architect and editor. He is the director of 2G magazine, published by the German publishing house Walther König (Cologne), and in 2016 he founded his own imprint, Puente Editores, dedicated to architecture and contemporary art publications. His books include Cháchara (Caniche, 2020), Pabellones de exposición (Editorial Gustavo Gili, 2000), as well as edited volumes of writings by Alejandro de la Sota (2002), Josep Llinàs (2002, with Lluís Ortega), Mies van der Rohe (2006), Jørn Utzon (2010), and Olafur Eliasson (2012). He is coauthor of the monograph Alejandro de la Sota (2009, with Iñaki Ábalos and Josep Llinàs), the 2G special issue on Mies van der Rohe’s houses (2009, with Beatriz Colomina), and Fisac/De la Sota (2013, with Carlos García-Wandosell). He has also translated numerous architectural essays into Spanish for various publishers. He has curated exhibitions and public programs, and in 2010 he was awarded the FAD Prize for Thought and Criticism.
Fernanda Canales is an architect from Universidad Iberoamericana and holds a PhD in architecture from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid. Her work combines architectural practice with research and teaching, exploring the relationship between architecture, the city, and society. She has been a professor at institutions such as the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and the Polytechnic University of Madrid, and she has conducted postdoctoral studies at Harvard University. Her theoretical work is reflected in publications such as Architecture in Mexico 1900–2010 (Arquine, 2022) and Collective Housing in Mexico. Her career has been recognized with international awards such as the Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Award, establishing her as one of the most influential architects in Latin America.
Florencia Rodríguez is an Argentine architect, editor, and curator. She studied architecture at the University of Belgrano, graduating in 2000. Since 2002, she collaborated with Summa+ magazine, and in 2010, she founded PLOT, which she directed until 2017, establishing it as one of the leading architecture publications in Latin America. In 2016, she launched NESS magazine and the publishing house Lots of Architecture Publishers. She was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University from 2013 to 2014, where she also taught. In 2022, she became the director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois Chicago. In 2024, she was appointed artistic director of the sixth Chicago Architecture Biennial, becoming the first Latin American to hold this position. Her work focuses on editing, writing, and teaching, promoting new narratives and exploring alternative forms of design criticism.
Jesús Vassallo is an architect, professor, and researcher known for his focus on the intersection of architecture, materiality, and theory. He graduated from the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid (ETSAM), where he also earned a PhD in architecture, and completed a master’s of architecture at Harvard University. He is currently a professor at Rice University, where his work explores the relationship between construction, image, and architectural narrative. He has authored books such as Seamless: Digital Collage and Dirty Realism in Contemporary Architecture (Park Books, 2016) and Epics in the Everyday (Park Books, 2020), examining architectural representation and realism in contemporary design. His research and architectural practice have been widely recognized, establishing him as one of the most influential voices in the field of architectural theory and criticism.
LIGA–Space for Architecture is a nonprofit independent space founded in Mexico City in 2011 that promotes Latin American contemporary architecture through exhibitions, lectures and workshops. It was created as a curatorial platform in order to stimulate the experimentation in relation to contemporary architecture and its possibilities as a discursive practice, expanding and establishing connections with other disciplines. The annual calendar comprises three exhibitions in which emerging studios from across Latin America intervene in the gallery space located in Laguna, a former factory now reused into a collaborative space for creative production. In parallel to the exhibitions, there is a regular program entitled LIGA-ARCHIVES that seeks to activate and provide public access to valuable historic sources related to architecture in Latin America.