Frida and Diego’s Other House and the Mystery of Eileen Gray in Mexico

Join us for a co-sponsored lecture by Dr. Juan Manuel Heredia, Professor of Architecture at Portland State University, as he unveils the third house that Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera inhabited. Long thought to be an “apartment,” this was in fact their urban residence, where Frida moved in after her heartbreaking split from Diego in 1934.

Dr. Heredia is a Professor and the Director of Portland State University’s School of Architecture. He holds a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of The First Modern Building in Mexico (2020) and the co-editor (with Nicholas Temple and Andrzej Piotrowski) of The Routledge Handbook of the Reception of Classical Architecture (2019). Recently, he published the article “The Other House for Diego and Frida and the Mystery of Eileen Gray in Mexico,” which tells the story of a little-known but noteworthy residential space.