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Luxury, Class, and the Architecture of Belonging
Before Frida Escobedo designed the new modern and contemporary art wing at The Met, she designed a five-story townhouse in Colonia Popotla, Mexico City—one of her early residential works.
I once lived there, and the house became an unexpected study in class, beauty, foreignness and belonging.
In this audio essay, I explore what the experience taught me about the social codes of Mexico City, the ways luxury lives in the psyche, and the question underneath it all: who gets to live inside beauty—and who decides?
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