Mexican architect frida escobedo

Summer pavilion Serpentine Galleries in London will be built by Mexican Frida Escobedo. She became the eighteenth and youngest architect in the history of the project.

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The temporary pavilion of Serpentine Galleries is an annual surprise for everyone who loves modern architecture. Sixteen years ago, the gallery management set an ambitious goal: to assemble a collection of original architecture - and since then every year has invited famous authors to build a pavilion for the summer. Over the years, Oscar Niemeyer, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas took part in this project, and Zaha Hadid even designed the pavilion twice - in 2000 and 2007. The building solemnly opens, lives throughout the summer and until mid-October: visitors to the gardens of South Kensington and Hyde Park are relaxing here, bohemian parties and concerts are held. Frida Escobedo chose the “council of four”: curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist, director of Serpentine Galleries Yana Peel and architects David Adjaye and Richard Rogers.

Summer Pavilion Serpentine Galleries in London. 2018. Arch. Frida Escobedo, Taller de Arquitectura

Architect and urbanist Frida Escobedo (Frida Escobedo, b. 1979) received a master’s degree from Harvard, more than ten years teaching in her native Mexico City, in the Ibero-American University. Since 2006, Frieda has been designing her own projects ranging from small-sized housing to museums and exhibition halls. As a child she spent some time dreaming about becoming a plastic surgeon. Fortunately, she later changed her mind.

Boutique Aesop in Miami. Arch. Frida Escobedo, Taller de Arquitectura

Its theme is “the return to life of urban spaces that are considered unimportant or abandoned, the implementation of specific projects in these spaces, starting with residential buildings and community centers, ending with hotels and galleries”. Among her idols, Frida calls Lina Bo Bardi and Carlo Scarpa.

Aesop. Арх. Frida Escobedo, Architecture Workshop

Escobedo is interested in local materials and local cultures, in her works there is the purity of the material, an explosion of color, a love for textures, in modern construction she uses both technology and handicraft production, which is valued more than ever. A good example was the Hotel Boca Chica in Acapulco, developed in 2017 in cooperation with the architect José Rojas.

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Frida participated in the Ordos 100 project of Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron and Ay Weiwei (home for nomads in Mongolia), in the Venice Biennale in 2012 and 2014 (Mexican and Swiss pavilions), in the Lisbon Architectural Triennale in 2013, and also in Chicago Architecture Biennale in 2015.

“Architects take themselves too seriously. How we behave ourselves every day is much more important than the desire to solve problems related to human problems. ”

The Siqueiros Tallera. Арх. Frida Escobedo, Architecture Workshop The Siqueiros Tallera. Арх. Frida Escobedo, Architecture Workshop The Siqueiros Tallera. Арх. Frida Escobedo, Architecture Workshop

Her first big project - an order for the renovation of the La Tallera Siqueiros gallery in Cuernavaca - she received in 2010. This building, which has a symbolic value, was created in 1965 by the monumentalist David Alfaro Siqueiros and served as his home and studio. The house was surrounded by a perforated concrete wall, which allows the flow of light to the building itself, while protecting it from direct sunlight.

The architect successfully worked on the construction of social housing in the small Mexican town of Taxco. In 2017, Frida rebuilt the Octavio Paz Library in Guadalajara and designed the installation in the John Madejsky Garden of the London Victoria and Albert Museum as part of the London Design Festival 2017. The composition of the mirror pedestals symbolized Tenochtittlan, an ancient city on the lake.

The Summer Pavilion in London will be built from two straight-line blocks installed at the same angle as the zero meridian of the Greenwich Observatory. He will receive a patio and lattice translucent walls of concrete. Mirror surfaces reflecting the building will be a pond and interior cladding panels. According to Escobedo, she was inspired by the dark colors and textured surfaces of London buildings, and the whole structure should provoke visitors to think about the time and speed of its flow. The pavilion will open on June 15 and will work until October.

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