Met announces Mexican as 1st female architect for wing


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The exterior of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Photo: AP

New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art announced on March 14 that a Mexican architect has been chosen as the first woman to design a wing at The Met, as the museum is known.

The Met said in a statement that Mexican architect Frida Escobedo has been selected to design the renovation of The Met’s modern and contemporary galleries, known as the Oscar L. Tang and H.M. Agnes Hsu-Tang Wing.

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