In the first of a series of short movies about Frida Escobedo, the Mexican architect describes how she fell into the profession and why she's never worked for anybody else.
Speaking exclusively to Dezeen in London the architect, who in 2018 became the youngest person to design the prestigious Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, explained that she chose her profession for unexpected reasons.
"I didn't know that I was going to be an architect from the start," she said. "I just applied for architecture school because I thought it was a safer place."
"But I loved it," she added. "The first week I was in architecture school, I completely loved it."
In 2006, Escobedo set up her own practice called Frida Escobedo, Taller de Arquitectura Born in Mexico City in 1979, Escobedo studied architecture at the Ibero-American University in her home city before taking a masters course at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, USA.
After that she returned home and set up her own studio, Frida Escobedo, Taller de Arquitectura, in 2006.
La Tallera has a feature wall made of perforated concrete blocks
Her work often features simple materials and forms, such as the mass-produced cement roof tiles used at the Serpentine Gallery Pavilion, or the perforated concrete blocks that screen her La Tallera gallery complex at Cuernavaca in Mexico.

"I think my approach to architecture is that simple forms work the best and that simple materials can express...