Lima, Peru
Session 5: Feb 9 – April 10, 2009

Ms. Leon is an architect based in Lima, Peru. She has dedicated years of investigation to the Peruvian coastal desert, where she has designed and built the majority of her projects. In 1996, Leon established her own architecture studio, leondelima, which also serves as a platform for her research on desert architecture and design. She received her professional degree from the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at the Universidad Ricardo Palma in Lima.

• UFI Project: LA-LIMA: Probing the Urban Desert
  Aug 24, 2009

  Alexia Leon Public Presentation, 4/7/09
  Alexia Leon focused upon questions on how the desert environment has shaped the development of both Lima and Los Angeles, and its implications for future development. Ms. Lima worked on her [...]