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 Siqueiros 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 that date to undertake the project. Most recently, she 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 Escobedo opened a studio in New York City in 2022.
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), and the studio was named by the seminal architecture magazine DOMUS as one of the world’s “100+ Best Architecture Firms.”
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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Abraham Martínez
Adriana Rojas
Alonso Lopéz
Andrea Schelly
Ariana Cruz Palacios
Carolina Andrade
Fernanda Hinojosa
Ivo Alves Martins
Jonathan Larsen
Juan Pablo Bravo
Juan Pablo Ruiz
José Luis González
Josué Palma
Karla Martínez
Lucero Arenas
Miguel Lucero
Rogelio Morales
Valeria Villanueva
Victor Cruz
Administration
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José Rosas
Research & Communication
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Iva Keselicová
Former team members
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Aida Alvarado
Ali Agal
Amanda Kemeny
Andrés Harvey
Antonio Zarco
Carlos Hernández
Clara Chapus
Daniela Álvarez
Daniela Ramírez
Elsa Fisbein
Federica Lombardi
Fernando Rey
Floria Herrero
Gustavo Silva
Héctor Arce
Héctor Manuel Hurtado
Ixchel Abarca
Jacob Stinson
Javier Rocamonde
José María Gómez de León
Lorenza Sierra
Mads Bjørn Christiansen
María Jesús Padrón
Mariana Ríos
Mathilde Lhote
Matthew Kennedy
Natalia Gálvez
Olivier Bellflamme
Raya Shaban
Romain Roy-Pinot
Valentina Merz
Yetzi Tafoya