Professor Luis García Galiano de Rivas is an Architect from the Faculty of Architecture at UNAM with over thirty-five years of professional practice dedicated to the design and construction of buildings, as well as Urban Design. He holds a Master's degree from the Postgraduate Program in Architecture at UNAM, specializing in research and teaching. He has professional experience in Environment and Environmental Management, as well as in Intervention and Management of Cultural Heritage. Currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Architecture at UNAM.

Professionally, he has had the opportunity to work both independently and in collaboration with other architects, including notable figures such as Alfonso Govela, Carlos Mijares Bracho, Carlos González y Lobo, Luis Sarmiento, Santos Ruiz, and Giovana Rechia.

Throughout his professional experience, he has designed and built various types of buildings including social housing, individualized residences, high schools, and higher education institutions, border facilities in Nuevo Laredo and Otay Mesa, office buildings, cultural facilities such as museums, galleries, cultural centers, and houses of culture.

In the field of rehabilitation and reuse of culturally valuable properties, he has been involved in projects for offices and cultural centers, including maritime customs buildings in Tampico and Veracruz, the National Art Museum (MUNAL), the Cultural Center of Spain in Mexico, the Regional Museum of Guadalajara, and the Regional Museum of Aguascalientes.

He has participated in various proposals for Master Plans for historic centers and management plans for the rescue and management of heritage sites, such as those in Tampico, Nuevo Laredo, Aguascalientes, San Cristóbal de las Casas, and Cañadas de la Virgen in Guanajuato.

In international competitions, he has been a finalist at the National Prado Museum in Spain, the National Museum of Korea, and won the Children's Museum in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

He has worked as Museum Director for the National Institute of Anthropology and History at the Regional Museum of Aguascalientes and at the Cultural Center of the Highlands of Chiapas. He has been involved in coordinating regional development projects for museums in Querétaro, Guadalajara, Aguascalientes, Zacatecas, Alhóndiga de Granaditas, and San Luis Potosí. He has also served as Acting Head at the INAH Center in Aguascalientes.

In terms of teaching experience, he has been a professor at the Architecture Workshop at the Faculty of Architecture of UNAM in the Max Cetto Workshop, and at the Universidad Cuauhtémoc de Aguascalientes since 1995. He has initiated academic exchange workshops for students and professors between the FA ARQ UNAM, the Universidad Iberoamericana Campus Mexico City, the Marista University of Mérida, Yucatan, and the Universidad Cuauhtémoc de Aguascalientes.

He has developed a project for the implementation of a Workshop School specializing in Built Heritage Rescue in San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas, AECYD-INAH-Government of the State of Chiapas.

Since 2013, he has been a full-time research professor at CyAD, Unidad Xochimilco, and has taught at the undergraduate and master's levels. In October 2018, he obtained his permanency through an opposition examination.

Since 2019, he has been a professor and tutor in the graduate program in architecture at UNAM, in the field of knowledge "Architecture, city, and territory."

Research topics include:

• Progressive social housing, alternatives, and possibilities.
• The geometric composition of territory, city, and architecture.
• Urban and architectural transformations, the configurations of cultural heritage.
• Settlements, their models of adaptation to the natural physical environment.
• Integrated learning of architecture and urban planning.

Publications include:
• "Rebuilding higher education after the COVID-19 pandemic" 2021. Ibero-American Association of University Didactics. ISBN 978-607-749-156-9.
• "El Caballito Lances y Bretes" Editorial Pluma y martillo.

Professor and Tutor of the Graduate Program in Architecture in the Field of Knowledge: Architecture, City, and Territory at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).