My working environment moves from place to place—I often meet with clients in their space to review concepts and ideas for their project. I work on construction sites where we interpret drawings and review conditions with contractors and tradespeople. My physical workspace is immersed in an art & design shop, in my home and in my studio surrounded by bits and pieces of multiple projects, drawings and diagrams that represent spaces whose purpose is to provide shelter, and hopefully comfort and safety. When designing living spaces on the water’s edge, the boundary between interior and exterior space is often blurred. In the winter, we long to bring the light and warmth and indoors and in the summer we long to push the indoors outward.

Anthi Frangiadis is an architect, artist and shop owner whose professional career is currently based in New Bedford, Massachusetts. Educated at the Rhode Island School of Design where she received a Bachelor of Architecture & Bachelor of Fine Arts, with a Concentration in Art History, her artwork and her retail shop complement her professional career as an architect. She finds drawing meditative and communicative with a variety of line and charcoal drawings, mostly large in scale, in her portfolio. The retail shop known as The Drawing Room, in historic downtown New Bedford, is a result of the creativity infused in her architectural projects, her belief in the renaissance of New Bedford’s downtown neighborhood, and her support of the region’s finest makers.