Title & Author:

Suspended moment : the architecture of Frida Escobedo / edited by Max Hollein ; contributors, David Breslin, Frida Escobedo, Jhaelen Hernandez-Eli, Max Hollein, Nadine M. Orenstein, Jeff L. Rosenheim, Paola Santos Coy, Abraham Thomas.

Publication:

New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2025]
New Haven ; London : Yale University Press
©2025

Description:

131 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-125) and index.
Directors' foreword -- A lattice of time : Frida Escobedo's work in context / Abraham Thomas -- Architecture as language / Paola Santos Coy -- Frida Escobedo at The Met / Max Hollein -- Conversations with Frida Escobedo / David Breslin, Jhaelen Hernandez-Eli, Nadine M. Orenstein, and Jeff L. Rosenheim -- Works by Frida Escobedo -- Notes -- Index -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Photography credits.

Summary:

An illuminating profile of one of today's most innovative and forward-looking architects, whose materials-based practice explores how space can provoke emotional response. Frida Escobedo's (b. 1979) designs for public spaces have received global accolades. In 2022 The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that she would be the first woman to design a wing for the institution. This publication surveys her award-winning structures that treats space as a language--layered, responsive, and reflective of both a site's history and its present. Focusing on her full body of work in the context of her emerging and already vibrant career, this first consideration of Escobedo's two-decade multimedia practice includes an interview with the architect, alongside informed essays that discuss the bases of her work and her wide-reaching influences. This timely profile of a rising star explores Escobedo's attention to gender, accessibility, and the environment, as well as her diverse inspirations, ranging from concrete poetry to her hometown of Mexico City, which she describes as a "modern metropolis with ancient roots . . . in other words, a living, breathing museum."-- Yale University Press.

ISBN:

9781588397867
1588397866

Subject:

Escobedo, Frida, 1979-
Escobedo, Frida, 1979- Interviews.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Women architects Mexico.
Architecture 21e siècle.
Femmes architectes Mexique.
ARCHITECTURE / General.

Added entries:

Escobedo, Frida, 1979- interviewee, architect.
Hollein, Max, editor, contributor.
Breslin, David, interviewer.
Hernandez-Eli, Jhaelen, interviewer.
Orenstein, Nadine, interviewer.
Rosenheim, Jeff, interviewer.
Coy, Paola Santos, contributor.
Thomas, Abraham (Museum curator), contributor.
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), issuing body.

Architecture of Frida Escobedo

Holdings:

Location: Library main 321881
Call No.: 321881
Copy: 1
Status: Available