Frida Escobedo established her eponymous architecture studio in Mexico City in 2006, expanding her practice with a New York office in 2022. Her trajectory was initially built on the strength of a series of 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). The studio garnered international recognition in 2018, when Escobedo 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.
In 2022, Frida was appointed design architect for the new Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing for Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, becoming the youngest architect and the first woman to design a building for the institution. In 2024, she was selected alongside lead architect Moreau Kusunoki to co-design the renovation of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Among other recent projects, Ray Harlem (2025) in New York (with Handel Architects) stands out for its mixed-use, incorporating residences and commercial space, and for housing the new National Black Theatre.
Frida is the recipient of numerous awards, 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 named an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). The Créateurs Design Association & Awards honored her with Le Prix Charlotte Perriand in 2024. Most recently, she was granted the title of Honorary Fellow by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the 2026 National Design Award for Architecture by the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.
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 Yale University (2022).
