The V&A and London Design Festival, with support from the government of Mexico, have selected Mexican architect, Frida Escobedo to create an installation in the V&A’s John Madejski Garden this summer to mark the Year of Mexico in the United Kingdom. Entitled ‘You know you cannot see yourself so well as by reflection’, Escobedo created a pavilion, inspired by Tenochtitlán, the Mexican city that was built on a lake. Referencing the multicultural influences that coexist in contemporary Mexico, the pavilion is a flexible space made up of layers of reflective surfaces that can be moved and adapted to hold a wide variety of events and activities. Describing her plans for the V&A garden, Escobedo said: “The pavilion is an abstraction of this first settlement in the lake: a mirrored system of platforms that resembles the city’s grid and the sheen of the water as it was first described by
