Frida Escobedo to design the Serpentine Pavilion 2018

Mexican architect Frida Escobedo has become the youngest architect to design the Serpentine Pavilion in the Serpentine Gallery.

Since 2000, the Serpentine Gallery invites one internationally awarded architect to create their first structure in the UK, by designing the Serpentine Pavilion. This pioneering commission has featured some of the biggest names in international architecture such as: Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, Jean Nouvel, Oscar Niemeyer y Bjarke Ingels.

Escobedo’s Pavilion takes the form of an enclosed courtyard, based on both, Mexico’s domestic architecture and British materials.

The installation is also a reference to the Greenwich Meridian, the global standard marker of time and geographical distance, presenting playful and original perspectives that invites the visitors to interact with time and space, sun and shadows, water and geometry.

Known for her work in urban reactivation, Frida Escobedo lectures internationally and has won several architecture prizes. In 2006, she founded her practice in Mexico City, with significant national projects including the Librería del Fondo Octavio Paz and an extension of La Tallera Siqueiros gallery in Cuernavaca. Today her designs have featured in Venice, Lisbon, San Francisco, London and New York.

 

When?
15 June – 7 October 2018
From 10am – 6pm

Where?
Serpentine Gallery,
Kensington Gardens,
London W2 3XA

For more information:

http://www.serpentinegalleries.org/exhibitions-events/serpentine-pavilion-2018-designed-frida-escobedo
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