Mexican Serpentine Pavilion

Lanza Atelier’s A Serpentine, the 25th pavilion on the Serpentine South lawn and the second Mexican Serpentine Pavilion in eight years, opened 6 June 2026 and is the first London commission since Peter Zumthor’s 2011 hortus conclusus to lead with a wall rather than a roof. The arc from Frida Escobedo’s 2018 celosia courtyard to Isabel Abascal and Alessandro Arienzo’s red-brick crinkle-crankle is the entire Mexican entry in the Serpentine’s twenty-six-year ledger. Two pavilions, eight years apart, both from Mexico City, both built around perforated mass and a careful argument with the lawn — and yet they read as opposite propositions about what Mexico City exports to Kensington Gardens. ...