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Public Lecture – Fernando Pessoa University

On November 4th of 2025, architect Maria Fradinho, founder of FRARI, visited Fernando Pessoa University 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. …

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 …

“Let’s Build Cities?” – Lesson in Chousa Velha

On the previous July 9th of 2025, in Primary School/Kindergarten da Chousa Velha (Ílhavo), FRARI spent the afternoon dreaming up cities with the little ones. With cardboard, glue and creativity, we dismantled myths, shared ideas and built a model that showed how architecture, nature and people intersect in urban life. It was incredible to see …

Anteprojectos #368

Published project: Soza’s Business Building Magazine: Anteprojectos Edition No: 368 Year: 2025 Publication country: Portugal Pages: Cover, 04, 12-13

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!