The National Design Awards honor innovation and impact and recognize the power of design to change the world. Established in 2000 as a project of the White House Millennium Council, the National Design Awards bring national recognition to the ways in which design enriches everyday life.
Frida Escobedo Studio wins the Architecture category
Founded in 2006, Frida Escobedo Studio works across architecture, art, design, installation, research, and academia. Each project sets forth from overlooked aspects of the built environment, using simple forms to reveal the forces shaping collective identity and public space. The studio’s practice, with offices in Mexico City and New York, spans a range of scales and territories, from multistory residential buildings to temporary art installations, adaptive reuse renovations, public sculpture, book publications, and object design, often pushing the conventional boundaries of architecture. Recent commissions include Escobedo’s appointment as lead designer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new Modern and Contemporary Art Wing (2022), her selection as co-designer, following the lead architectural team Moreau Kusunoki, for the renovation of the Centre Pompidou in Paris (2024), and her selection as the lead designer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Doha (2025).
