the architecture of Frida Escobedo Hollein, Max creator Escobedo, Frida 1979- interviewee. Hollein, Max editor, contributor. Breslin, David interviewer. Hernandez-Eli, Jhaelen interviewer. Orenstein, Nadine interviewer. Rosenheim, Jeff interviewer. Coy, Paola Santos contributor. Thomas, Abraham (Museum curator) contributor. Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) issuing body. text bibliography nyu 2025 2025 monographic eng

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131 p. : ill. ; col. ; 28 cm An illuminating profile of one of today's most innovative and forward-looking architects, whose materials-based practice explores how space can provoke emotional response. Frida Escobedo's (b. 1979) designs for public spaces have received global accolades. In 2022 The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that she would be the first woman to design a wing for the institution. This publication surveys her award-winning structures that treats space as a language--layered, responsive, and reflective of both a site's history and its present. Focusing on her full body of work in the context of her emerging and already vibrant career, this first consideration of Escobedo's two-decade multimedia practice includes an interview with the architect, alongside informed essays that discuss the bases of her work and her wide-reaching influences. This timely profile of a rising star explores Escobedo's attention to gender, accessibility, and the environment, as well as her diverse inspirations, ranging from concrete poetry to her hometown of Mexico City, which she describes as a "modern metropolis with ancient roots . . . in other words, a living, breathing museum."--Yale University Press. 7 DIRECTO´S FOREWORD -- 8 A LATTICE OF TIME: -- FRIDA ESCOBEDO´S WORK IN CONTEXT Abraham Thomas -- 20 ARCHITECTURE AS LENGUAGE Paola Santos Coy -- 28 FRIDA ESCOBEDO AT THE MET Max Hollein -- 32 CONVERSATIONS WITH FRIDA ESCOBEDO -- David Breslin, Jhaelen Hernandez-Eli, Nadine M. Orenstein, and Jeff L. Rosenheim -- 46 WORS BY FRIDA ESCOBEDO -- 124 NOTES -- 126 INDEX -- 128 CONTRIBUTORS -- 129 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 130 PHOTOGRAPHY CREDITS – Figures: Figs. 1,2 Frida Escobedo Studio (Mexican, founded 2006), The Oscar L. Tang and H.M Agnes Hsu Tang Wing at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (digital renderings) -- Fig. 3 Marcel Broodthaers (Belgian, 1924-1976), A Throw of the Dice Will Never Abolish Chance (Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hazard), 1969. Printed by Vereman, Antwerp, published by Wide Space Gallery, Antwerp, and Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Bertha and Isaac Liberman Foundation Gift, in memory of Jeffrey P. Klein, 2015 -- Fig. 4 Frida Escobedo Studio, Serpentine Pavilion lattice wall, London 2018 -- Fig. 5 Frida Escobedo Studio, La Tallera celosia, Cuernavaca, Mexico 2012 -- Fig. 6 Frida Escobedo Studio, Screen 01, 2019. Glass, Steel, and aluminum shade -- Figs 7,8 Frida Escobedo Studio and Mauricio Mesta Arquitectos (Mexican, founded 2010), Galerie Nordenhake courtyard, Mexico City 2023 -- Fig. 9 Frida Escobedo Studio, Aesop Park Slope store interior, Brooklyn 2019 -- Fig. 10 Frida Escobedo Studio and Mauricio Mesta Arquitectos, Niddo Café tiled wall, Mexico City 2020 -- Fig. 11 Frida Escobedo Studio, Chair 01, 2017. Solid copper and copper plate, private collection -- Fig. 12 Frida Escobedo Studio, Creek Chair, 2021. Stainless steel structure and nickel ball chain, private collection -- Fig. 13 Frida Escobedo Studio, Mar Tirreno terrace, Mexico City 2018 -- Fig. 14 Frida Escobedo Studio, Serpentine Pavilion (conceptual study) 2018 -- Figs. 15, 16 Frida Escobedo (Mexican, born 1979), The Book of Hours (Dornbirn: Zumtobel Group AG, 2023), pp. 20 -21 (left), 70 – 71 (right), showing colorless calcite at different times of day -- Fig. 17 Construction photograph of Station #16) sculpture by Olivier Seguin (French, born 1927), Mexico City 1968 -- Fig. 18 Olivier Seguin, Station #16, (Estación #16), Mexico City 1968 -- Fig.19 Frida Escobedo Studio, Estaciones (Estación 16), Orléans, France 2017 -- Figs. 20,21 Frida Escobedo Studio, Yo Know You Cannot See Yourself So Well as by Reflection (digital collages) 2015 -- Fig. 22 Frida Escobedo Studio, La Tallera (digital drawing) 2012 -- Fig. 23 Frida Escobedo Studio, La Tallera celosía seen through Siqueiros mural interior, Cuernavaca, Mexico 2012 -- Fig. 24 Taller Fraga (Mexican, founded 2013), volcanic stone model of Avenida Juárez hotel stairwell (Puebla, Mexico in progress) -- Figs. 25, 26 Frida Escobedo ‘’Casa Estudio Luis Barragán,’’ in Domestic Orbits (Mexico City : Gato Negro Ediciones, 2019). The ground floor plan at right annotates points of Access for domestic workers and ‘’sluices’’ for their movement throughout the house -- Fig. 27 Frida Escobedo Studio, INFONAVIT regional single family residence proposal (digital drawing) 2014 -- Fig. 28 Samples of adobe bricks for Ray Harlem (New York, in progress) -- Fig. 29 Adobe models of Ray Harlem (New York, in progress) -- Fig. 30 Adobe bricks developed by COAA Asesores (Mexican, founded 2013) and Gnanli Landrou (Togolese, born 1989) for Yola Mezcal distillery (Oaxaca, Mexico, in progress) -- Figs. 31,32 Frida Escobedo Studio, digital collages of Yola Mezcal distellery (Oaxaca, Mexico, in progress) -- Fig. 33 The building facade studied by Escobedo in Split Subject / El Otro, ca. 2012 -- Fig. 34 Lina Bo Bardi (Brazilian, born Italy, 1914 – 1992), Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo, built 1968. By elevating the museum building, Bo Bardi created a public square beneath it -- Fig. 35 Mathias Goeritz (German, 1915 – 1990), Plastic Poem (Poema Plástico), 1953. Museo Experimental el Eco, Mexico City -- Fig. 36 Frida Escobedo Studio, Museo Experimental el Eco Pavilion brick configurations (digital drawing) 2010 -- Fig. 37 Residences built along the Sierra de Guadalupe mountain range, Mexico City 2021 -- Fig. 38 German Expressionist film cycle screening at Museo Experimental el Eco Pavilion, Mexico City 2010 -- Fig. 39 Frida Escobedo Studio, Serpentine Pavilion, London, 2018 (at right), with the Sepertine South gallery to the left. The diagonal line running parallel to the pavilion’s roof represents the Greenwich meridian -- Fig. 40 Frida Escobedo Studio, Serpentine Pavilion interior, London 2018 -- Figs. 41, 42 La Tallera, Cuernavaca, Mexico, before (left) and after (right) Escobedo’s 2012 renovation -- Figs. 43 Lygia Clark (Brazilian, 1920 – 1988), Bicho de bolso (Pocket Animal), 1960/66. Aluminum, variable. ‘’ The world of Lygia Clark’’ Cultural Association, Rio de Janeiro -- Fig. 44 Frida Escobedo Studio, A Very Short Space of Time Through Very Short Times of Space (digital collage) 2016 -- Fig. 45 Frida Escobedo Studio, A Very Short Space of Time Through Very Short Times of Space, Palo Alto 2016 -- Fig. 46 Frida Escobedo Studio, A Very Short Space of Time Through Very Short Times of Space (conceptual study) 2016 -- Fig. 47 Ana Mendieta (American, born Cuba, 1948-1985), Creek (still), 1974. Super *mm film, color, silent -- Fig. 48 Frida Escobedo Studio, Creek Bench (detail), 2021. Stainless steel structure and nickel ball chain. Fig.49 Frida Escobedo Studio, La Tallera , Cuernavaca, Mexico 2012 -- Fig. 50 Frida Escobedo Studio, Randolph Square installation, Chicago Architecture Biennial 2017 -- Fig. 51 Frida Escobedo Studio, exhibition design for Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, Museo Jumex, Mexico City 2015 -- Fig. 52 Frida Escobedo Studio, exhibition design for Cartier Design: A Living Legacy, Museo Jumex, Mexico City 2023 -- Fig. 53 The central square of the Tlatelolco neighborhood of Mexico City is known as the Plaza de las Tres Culturas (Square of the Three Cultures) for its layered juxtaposition of pre Hispanic, colonial Spanish, and independent Mexican structures and social histories -- Fig. 54 Robert Smithson (American, 1938-1973) A heap of Language, 1966. Pencil on graph paper. The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1720.2025) -- Fig. 55 Frida Escobedo Studio, Boca de Agua hotel Wood model, 2023. Th estructure is elevated to allow surrounding flora and fauna to flow beneath the hotel -- Fig. 56 Frida Escobedo Studio, Serpentine Pavilion (sketch) 2018 -- Fig. 57 Frida Escobedo Studio, Civic Stage (digital drawing) 2013 -- Figs. 58,59 Frida Escobedo Studio, Wood model of The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2022 -- Fig. 61 Héctor Zamora (Mexican, born 1974), Lattice Detour, 2020. Terracotta bricks, mortar, and steel -- Fig. 62 Frida Escobedo and Alejandro Alarcón (Mexican, born 1975) Casa Negra (conceptual collage) 2004 -- Figs. 63, 64 Remnants of the Aztec Templo Mayor in central Mexico City -- Fig. 65 Frida Escobedo Studio, Museo Experimental el Eco Pavilion Mexico City 2010 -- Fig. 66 Luis Barragán (Mexican, 1902-1988) Casa Gálvez Mexico City 1955 -- edited by Max Hollein ; contributors, David Breslin, Frida Escobedo, Jhaelen Hernandez-Eli, Max Hollein, Nadine M. Orenstein, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Paola Santos Coy, Abraham Thomas. Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-125) and index Escobedo, Frida 1979- Architecture, Modern 21st century Women architects Mexico ARCHITECTURE / General NA759.E73 S87 2025 720.92 9781588397867 1588397866 pucpr 250228 20251105113735.0 eng