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ARCHITECTURE
onsistent in this visionary architect’s second woman, since Zaha Hadid, to undertake the
work are the themes of time and the project on her own. For the Serpentine she created
blending of the perspectives of inside with a latticed wall, allowing the structure to blend inside
C outside, as well as her use of everyday and out, with light and wind flowing through. Time
materials. Her commission for the Victoria and Albert is represented in the courtyard furnished with a small
Museum in honor of the Year of Mexico is inspired pool and a mirrored ceiling that engages the shadows
by The Labyrinth of Solitude by Octavio Paz where to mark time as they shift with the sun’s movement.
she says, “He explains that the Mexican identity is all
about the mask and its intricate layers of simultaneous Escobedo studied architecture at the Universidad
design and the public domain from Harvard Graduate
concealment and exposition.” Iberoamericana and has a master's degree in art and
In 2018, Escobedo became the youngest architect School. Born in 1979, she co-founded her first studio,
to design and execute the Serpentine Pavilion in Perro Rojo, at age 24, hanging her solo shingle in 2006,
London’s Kensington Gardens. She is also only the and winning international awards ever since.
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