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18 Facts About Frida Escobedo

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Frida Escobedo was born on 1979 and is a Mexican architect.

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Frida Escobedo founded her own architectural and Design Studio in 2006 which is located in Mexico City.

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Frida Escobedo is known for creating temporary and interactive works which can accommodate multiple intended purposes.

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Frida Escobedo was named one of the top 30 most influential architects in London by ArchDaily because of her work on the Serpentine Pavilion.

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Frida Escobedo studied architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana and received a master's degree in Art, Design and the Public Domain at Harvard's Graduate School of Design.

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Frida Escobedo has participated as a judge for the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Boston Architectural College and the Monterrey Institute of Technology in Mexico.

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Frida Escobedo has taught classes at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Harvard Graduate School of Design, and the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.

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Frida Escobedo is currently still based in Mexico City working in Colonia Juarez central area, where she works as an independent architect in an office with nine other colleagues.

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In 2006, "Perro Rojo" was dissolved and Frida Escobedo began her own architecture and design firm.

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Frida Escobedo has designed under her own name from the firms inception to the current day.

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In 2018 Frida Escobedo designed the Serpentine Pavilion for the London's Kensington Gardens.

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The structure featured latticed walls of British made cement which allow both light and wind to pass through; the open, yet enclosed structure Frida Escobedo designed is intended to create an illusion of secrecy.

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Frida Escobedo makes use of a small pool and a mirrored ceiling which creates a contrast between light and shadow that changes throughout the day as the sun moves angles, the shadows that shift resembles the passage of the day.

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Frida Escobedo's team arranged the bricks in stacks with opposing diagonal rows creating a grid that just out into the store.

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Already through her partnership, Frida Escobedo has demonstrated her vision to create enthralling galleries that will challenge the embedded hierarchies of our history and chart a more accessible trajectory for the new wing.

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Frida Escobedo defends the idea that an architectural design is always brought to completion by the way it is inhabited.

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Frida Escobedo reveals later in the interview that people's emotions and relationships are revealed by building's design.

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However Frida Escobedo never doubted she was going to be in a creative field.