Frida Escobedo: Split Subject

by Ken Stewart (Editor), Marielle Suba (Editor), Wonne Ickx (Foreword by), José Luis Falconi (Contribution by), Julieta Gonzalez (Contribution by)

Overview

Split Subject, an early project by architect Frida Escobedo, deconstructs a fraught allegory of national identity and architectural modernism in Mexico. Unpacking this project and tracing its enduring influence throughout Escobedo’s career, Frida Escobedo: Split Subject reveals a multi-scalar and multi-medium practice whose creative output encompasses permanent buildings, temporary installations, public sculpture, art objects, publications, and exhibitions, and bares at its center a sensitivity to time and weathering, material and pattern, and memory. It includes essays by Julieta Gonzalez, Alejandro Hernández, Erika Naginski, Doris Sommer and José Falconi, and Irene Sunwoo, and a foreword by Wonne Ickx.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674278585
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	04/07/2026
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ken Stewart is Assistant Dean and Director of Communications and Public Programs at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

Marielle Suba is Editor of Harvard Design Press at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

José Luis Falconi is Lecturer of Latin American Art and Architecture in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at Brandeis University.

Doris Sommer is Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative, and Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University.