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.
FRARI is grateful for the invitation and the warm welcome from the academic community.

Lecture – Moviment.A ’22

Maria Fradinho was speaker at Moviment.A ’22 lecture cycle, organized by the Nucleus of Architecture Students of the University of Beira Interior, Portugal (NAUBI).

The lecture took place on the 6th of April at 14:00 at the Auditorium of the Formal Sessions of the University of Beira Interior and was broadcated online through zoom.

Visual Storytelling – Pecha Kucha Night

Maria Fradinho was invited to speak for the International Pecha Kucha Day – 20-02-2020. The presentation was entitled “The History behind the Arch House”.

The event took place in numerous cities worldwide, such as Bangkok, Bogata, Cleveland, El Paso, Geneva, Guangzhou, Lausanne, Lima, London, Maastricht, Manchester, Nairobi, Ottowa, Panjim, Quito, Rotterdam, San Antonio, Tbilisi, Tokyo, Tromsø, Utrecht, Valladolid, Yerevan and Aveiro, to celebrate creativity!

Soon we will share the video of the presentation.

Lecture – Teaching.Learning

Maria Fradinho was a speaker at the architecture seminar “ULP 24 Years – Teaching and Learning Architecture”, on the occasion of the celebration of the 24th anniversary of the Faculty of Architecture and Arts of Lusíada University of Porto, which took place on 29 and 30 April 2015.