Frida Escobedo studied architecture at the Universidad Iberoamericana and took a master's in art, design and the public domain at Harvard. She founded Perro Rojo with Alejandro Alarcón in 2003 and has practised under her own name in Mexico City since 2006. Her buildings are usually additions to something already standing — a hotel, a mural workshop, a museum courtyard — and they work by screening, reflecting and re-orienting rather than by adding mass, most often through perforated concrete lattices that meter light and air. In 2018 she became the youngest architect to build the Serpentine Pavilion in London, and in 2022 the first woman commissioned to design a wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She teaches at the Universidad Iberoamericana.
