Frida established her eponymous studio in Mexico City in 2006. The studio’s reputation, initially built on the strength of a series of competition-winning projects in her native country—including the renovation of the Hotel Boca Chica (2008), the El Eco Pavilion (2010), and the expansion of La Tallera Siquieros in Cuernavaca (2012)—has achieved global scope since 2018, when she received the prestigious appointment to design the annual Serpentine Pavilion in London’s Kensington Gardens, becoming the youngest architect to date to undertake the project. Her practice defies the traditional boundaries of the discipline, operating at a wide array of scales and mediums, from buildings and experimental conservation projects to temporary installations and public sculpture, limited edition objects, publications, and exhibition design. In 2022, Escobedo was appointed as the architect to design the new Modern & Contemporary Wing for The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, becoming the youngest and first woman to design a building for the institution. Following her appointment as the Design Architect for The Tang Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Frida opened a studio in New York City. Among the latest news, her studio has been selected as an associate designer to Moreau Kusunoki to lead the Centre Pompidou 2030 renovation.
Frida is the recipient of numerous accolades, including the Architectural League of New York’s Young Architects Forum Award (2009), the BIAU Prize (2014), the Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Award (2016), and the Architectural League Emerging Voices Award (2017). In 2019, she was honored as an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The most recently, The Créateurs Design Association & Awards has named Frida as the recipient of Le Prix Charlotte Perriand for 2024.
In addition to her practice, Frida has taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture (2016), Planning and Preservation (2015), the Architectural Association of London (2016), Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (2016/2019), Rice University (2019), and, most recently, at the Yale University (2022).
Current team
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Lucero Arenas
Ana Batlle
Juan Pablo Bravo
Víctor Cruz
Ariana Cruz Palacios
Marine Douget
Elsa Fisbein
Sócrates García
José Luis González
Fernanda Hinojosa Adalid
Marco Hwang
Sana Jahani
Amanda Kemeny
Jonathan Larsen Parker
César Lima
Alonso López
Victoria Oriana Marquez
Luis Mendoza
Rogelio Morales
Alberto Montesinos
Josué Palma
Elizabeth Reyes
Adriana Rojas
Juan Pablo Ruiz
Andrea Schelly
Miguel Sanchez Enkerlin
Ali Sherif
Axel de la Orta
Anne Francesca Vandeven
Margaux Wheelock-Shew
Administration
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Velia Aguirre
Rhiannon Inners
Research & Communication
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Alejandro Alegría
Iva Keselicová
Former team members
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Ixchel Abarca
Aida Alvarado
Daniela Álvarez
Ali Agal
Carolina Andrade
Héctor Arce
Clara Chapus
Mads Bjørn Christiansen
Olivier Bellflamme
Rubén Flores
Natalia Gálvez
José María Gómez de León
Andrés Harvey
Floria Herrero
Carlos Hernández
Héctor Manuel Hurtado
Matthew Kennedy
Miguel Ángel Lira Filloy
Mathilde Lhote
Federica Lombardi
Miguel Lucero
Abraham Martínez
Karla Martínez
Ivo Martins
Valentina Merz
Andrei Olivares
María Jesús Padrón
Fernando Rey
Javier Rocamonde
José Rosas
Romain Roy-Pinot
Kevin Sandoval
Raya Shaban
Lorenza Sierra
Gustavo Silva
Jacob Stinson
Yetzi Tafoya
Valeria Villanueva
Antonio Zarco