Frida Escobedo https://www.architecturalrecord.com/rss/2705 en-us Frida Escobedo Launches a Lecture Series on the Future of the Met The Mexican architect is designing the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s modern and contemporary galleries.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15900 Fri, 21 Oct 2022 13:28:59 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15900-frida-escobedo-launches-a-lecture-series-on-the-future-of-the-met Frida_Escobedo-1.jpg Frida Escobedo at her presentation at the Met in New York on October 20. Photo by Paula Lobo, courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art Frida_Escobedo-3.jpg Frida Escobedo in conversation with David Breslin, curator in charge of the Met’s modern and contemporary art department. Photo by Paula Lobo, courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art Frida_Escobedo-4.webp Photo by Paula Lobo, courtesy The Met Frida_Escobedo-2.webp Photo by Paula Lobo, courtesy the Met Exhibit Columbus Announces 2022–2023 Miller Prize Awards http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15880 Tue, 04 Oct 2022 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15880-exhibit-columbus-announces-2022-2023-miller-prize-awards Miller-Prize-1.jpg Bartholomew County Public Library, a site for co-creation for Tatiana Bilbao Estudio. Photo © Hadley Fruits for Landmark Columbus Foundation Miller-Prize-2.jpg Colubmus's Mill Race Park, to be utilized by Zewde. Photo © Hadley Fruits for Landmark Columbus Foundation Miller-Prize-3.webp Columbus's Mill Race Center to be worked on by PORT. Photo © Hadley Fruits for Landmark Columbus Foundation DESIGN:ED Podcast: Frida Escobedo http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15721 Wed, 15 Jun 2022 07:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15721-design-ed-podcast-frida-escobedo Frida Escobedo on Designing the Met’s New Wing and Building Communal Spaces

The Mexican architect known for blurring the boundaries of art and architecture will soon take on the design of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new modern and contemporary wing.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15665 Fri, 20 May 2022 00:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15665-frida-escobedo-on-designing-the-mets-new-wing-and-building-communal-spaces Frida-Escobedo-1.jpg Frida Escobedo's El Eco Pavilion intervention at Mexico City’s experimental El Eco museum in 2010 (left), portrait of the architect (right). Photos © Rafael Gamo (left), © Ana Hop (right), courtesy Frida Escobedo Frida-Escobedo-2.jpg The architect's Serpentine Pavilion in London's Kensington Gardens in 2018, which garnered her widespread international recognition as the youngest designer selected to design the pavilion at the time. Photo © Rafael Gamo Frida-Escobedo-3.jpg Detail of the movable concrete blocks the designer placed in the courtyard of El Eco in 2010. Rafael Gamo Frida-Escobedo-4.jpg The designer's expansion of the museum, workshop, and artist residency, La Tallera Siqueiros (the previous home and studio of Mexican painter and muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros) in 2012 in Cuernavaca. Photo © Rafael Gamo Frida-Escobedo-5.jpg The Hotel Boca Chica in Acapulco, Mexico. Escobedo collaborated with José Rojas on the hotel, a popular destination for 1950s Hollywood star, which was completed in 2008. Photo © Undine Pröhl, courtesy Frida Escobedo Frida-Escobedo-6.jpg The exterior of La Tallera Siqueiros. Photo © Rafael Gamo Frida Escobedo’s 2018 Serpentine Pavilion Opens in London The Mexican architect’s maze-like project has opened on the lawn of London’s Kensington Gardens.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13486 Thu, 14 Jun 2018 11:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13486-frida-escobedos-2018-serpentine-pavilion-opens-in-london Small changes in the light and weather over time produce an incalculable variety of shadow effects on the textured walls, and even within their depth due the undulating profile of each tile. Photo © Norbert Tukaj Small changes in the light and weather over time produce an incalculable variety of shadow effects on the textured walls, and even within their depth due the undulating profile of each tile. Photo © Norbert Tukaj Small changes in the light and weather over time produce an incalculable variety of shadow effects on the textured walls, and even within their depth due the undulating profile of each tile. Photo © Norbert Tukaj Small changes in the light and weather over time produce an incalculable variety of shadow effects on the textured walls, and even within their depth due the undulating profile of each tile. Photo © Norbert Tukaj Small changes in the light and weather over time produce an incalculable variety of shadow effects on the textured walls, and even within their depth due the undulating profile of each tile. Photo © Norbert Tukaj Small changes in the light and weather over time produce an incalculable variety of shadow effects on the textured walls, and even within their depth due the undulating profile of each tile. Photo © Norbert Tukaj Frida Escobedo Wins 2018 Serpentine Pavilion Commission The Mexican architect represents the 18th and youngest-ever person to receive the commission for the temporary pavilion in at Kensington Gardens.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13237 Thu, 08 Feb 2018 10:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13237-frida-escobedo-wins-2018-serpentine-pavilion-commission Serpentine Pavilion 2018 Designed by Frida Escobedo, Taller de Arquitectura Design Rendering, Interior View © Frida Escobedo, Taller de Arquitectura, Renderings by Atmósfera Serpentine Pavilion 2018 Designed by Frida Escobedo, Taller de Arquitectura Design Rendering, Interior View © Frida Escobedo, Taller de Arquitectura, Renderings by Atmósfera Serpentine Pavilion 2018, Designed by Frida Escobedo, Taller de Arquitectura Design Drawing © Frida Escobedo, Taller de Arquitectura Frida Escobedo, El Eco Pavilion, 2010, Mexico City Photo © Rafael Gamo Frida Escobedo, El Eco Pavilion, 2010, Mexico City Photo © Rafael Gamo Frida Escobedo, La Tallera, 2012, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico, Photo © Rafael Gamo Frida Escobedo, La Tallera, 2012, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico Photo © Rafael Gamo Frida Escobedo, Civic Stage, 2013, Close-Closer- Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Lisbon, Portugal Photo © Frida Escobedo and Catarina Botello Frida Escobedo, Civic Stage, 2013, Close-Closer- Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Lisbon, Portugal  Photo © Frida Escobedo and Catarina Botello Frida Escobedo Photo © Ana Hop