Guided Tour of the Atelier and Aveiro – University Fernando Pessoa
From Open Lecture to Studio Visit After architect Maria Fradinho was invited by the University Fernando Pessoa for an open lecture in November 2025, we now welcome architecture students to the Frari studio. A visit to showcase the daily life of the studio, the team dynamics, the work processes, and the real challenges of architectural …
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Opinion – “The house and the woman’s brain: how she constructs, lives and experiences space”, Idealista News
Architect Maria Fradinho shared her perspective on how a feminine approach transforms houses in an inspiring Idealista article. At Frari, we believe that architecture is about more than just buildings – it’s about creating spaces that reflect the needs, inclusion and identity of those who inhabit them. And when women lead, we create more human, …
Public Lecture – University Fernando Pessoa
On November 4th of 2025, architect Maria Fradinho, founder of FRARI, visited University Fernando Pessoa to give an Open Lecture on the design method for Single-Family Housing. She shared her professional experience and her vision of the relationship between form and use, inspiring students and teachers with a rigorous and sensitive approach to inhabited space. …
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Honourable Mention – Prémio Municipal de Arquitetura de Ílhavo – 40’s House
40's House was awarded an Honorable Mention on the Prémio Municipal de Arquitetura António Sarrico - 2nd Edition - Year 2025 - works related to the 2023-2024 biennium. The cerimony took place on September 6, 2025 at Museu Marítimo de Ílhavo auditorium. It is an honor to see our work recognized among the three best …
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The Concept
Our mission is the humanization of architecture, because we believe architecture is the platform where the best memories are created.
Frari creates unique projects, thinking on each client, proposing comfortable spaces and adjusted to each one’s needs.
Each project is developed from the beginning to the end, resulting in an in-depth study looking for the perfect match between the space and its inhabitant.
We explore different narratives, always combining architecture and landscape in the most harmonious way possible, to provide each client with an exclusive proposal, adapted to it’s reality.
However, we do not fail to have a formalist attitude in our architectural vision, since for us, architecture must be simple, regular, and contained to best perform its purpose – to serve the human being.
We develop buildings of cohesive and rigorous shapes, and with controlled tones, so that its users, and their props and equipment, can give the life (and colour) to the building.
The primary focus of our design vision is on the intelligence of the strategy adopted for the organization of spaces.
For us, architecture is the art of creating physical spaces that enhance intellectual performance.
Architecture helps us to be happy!