Português
curator, architect, and researcher. She holds a PhD in Aesthetics and Art History (PGEHA-USP), a master’s degree in Histories and Theories of Architecture from the AA School of Architecture (London), and a BA in Architecture and Urbanism from FAU Mackenzie (São Paulo). She has taught at FAAP, FAU-Mackenzie, Escola da Cidade, and ETH Zurich Studio Basel – Contemporary City Institute (Basel), where she worked as an assistant professor & researcher with architects Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron.
Her trajectory and current research, Chão em Movimento (“Ground in Motion”), articulates diagrammatic practices and cosmograms across heterogeneous ways of life.
She works in curating and coordinating experimental platforms that converge visual arts, design, architecture, and cultural-environmental agency, such as: Campos de Invisibilidade (Sesc Belenzinho, 2018–19), Contracondutas – Political-Pedagogical Action (Escola da Cidade, 2016–18), 10th São Paulo Architecture Biennale (IABsp, 2013), Spore Initiative (Berlin/Yucatán, 2021–22), among others.
She co-founded exo experimental org., a research platform on aesthetic-political practices, and the first artist residency program at the iconic Copan Building in São Paulo (2002–07). She is a member of O grupo inteiro (2014–) and serves on the Curatorial Council of the Instituto Sergio Rodrigues (2025–). She is currently on the international jury of the 7th Lisbon Architecture Triennale (2025).
Ligia is co-editor of several publications (including Contracondutas, 2017, Escola da Cidade; Campos de Invisibilidade, Sesc SP, 2018), and author of essays published in both academic and artistic journals and collections, nationally and internationally. Her essays appear in Critical Care (The MIT Press, 2019), Slow Spatial Reader – Radical Affections (Valiz, Amsterdam, 2021), Echoes of a Place (Buró-Buró, Mexico, 2020), Atlas do Chão: Constelação Independente (Rio Books, 2023), Lina Por Aldo (Cobogó, 2024), among others.