Pin-Up Issue 39 – Domesticity
Fall/Winter 2025
FRIDA ESCOBEDO
IN CONVERSATION WITH SAM CHERMAYEFF
The two architects compare notes on privacy, childhood homes, and the eternal quest for the perfect sofa.
Moderated by Felix Burrichter
Portraits by Daniel Shea
LINA GHOTMEH
The Lebanese-born, Paris-based architect on drawing from local craft traditions, the role of archaeology in her work, and how architecture can help interrupt cycles of violence.
Interview by Andrew Ayers
Portraits by Lars Brønseth
TATIANA BILBAO
The Mexico City–based architect on architecture as a primary form of care, domesticity beyond four walls, and why a home is never just a house. (In collaboration with KoozArch.)
Interview by Shumi Bose
Portraits by Daniel Riera
PIET OUDOLF
The Dutch landscape architect and leading figure of the New Perennial movement on garden clubs, planting for all seasons, and why bamboo tops his list of least-favorite plants.
Interview by Interview by Felix Burrichter
Portraits by Michael Cukr
Also in the issue: A scrapbook of references tracing Frida Escobedo’s thinking on domesticity — from ORDOS 100 to contemporary migrant women’s refuges; an essay on the architecture of domestic labor; a meditation on Donald Juddthat collapses the boundaries between architecture, art, and design; a conversation with José Esparza Chong Cuy on Storefront for Art and Architecture’s storied past and bright future; a visual tour of artist José León Cerrillo’s Mexico City home; Sheila Hicks’s revived Andean textiles; an architectural reading of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s period rooms; a Postmodern gem on Fire Island getting a second, salt-air-kissed life; design icon Peter Saville musing on his career and creating textiles; Sam Chermayeff’s practice continues to test (and tease) the limits of domestic norms; and so much more.
ALSO IN THE ISSUE: Tertulia! A gathering of ten Mexico City cultural practitioners with whom Frida Escobedo shares a creative kinship, featuring Magalí Arriola, Alessandro Arienzo (LANZA), Montserrat Castera, Ana Castella, Minerva Cuevas, Graciela Iturbide, Andy Medina, Ana Segovia, Bárbara Sánchez-Kane, and Elena Reygadas.
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