STUDIO FI is an architecture office founded and directed by architects Fernando Delgado and Isabela Canêdo.
Based in Rio de Janeiro, Studio Fi operates in various cities in Brazil and abroad, developing architecture projects with different programs and scales, including residential, commercial, hospital and corporative projects. From buildings to small renovations, such as ephemeral projects, interventions in heritage buildings, as well as public spaces and furniture.
Our goal is to design architecture projects that can create idealized spaces, materializing memories, preserving old stories and telling new ones. To achieve this, our starting point is to conduct a precise study about the particularities and possibilities of action in each project, understanding the needs and expectations from our clients, developing specific proposals for each context.
Through cooperation with other professionals, we can work towards projects of varying degrees of complexity. We are always interested in overseeing the whole developing process, therefore we seek to be involved in every stage of it: from the creation to the construction itself.
Over the years, our work has been recognized by publications such as Revista Projeto, in addition to receiving awards. Among these, we highlight the Annual Award from the Institute of Architects of Brazil granted to the Gastronomy Studio in 2018 by both the Rio de Janeiro (IAB-RJ) and Minas Gerais (IAB-MG) sections, in the categories restoration and adaptation of use and interior-commercial respectively, and the honorable mention for the Rio de Janeiro Stand project at the Congress of the International Union of Architects in Seoul (UIA 2017), the result of a national competition organized by IAB-RJ. In 2024, our project for the ArcelorMittal Headquarters in Rio received an honorable mention in the category “Interior-commercial” at the IAB-RJ Annual Awards, where our project Banco Palin received the award in the category “Objects and furniture design”. Our work has also been exhibited and presented at national and international events such as the 2021 Congress of the International Union of Architects, in Rio de Janeiro, or the 2018 Brazil/Portugal International Forum on Architectural Heritage, among others.
FERNANDO DELGADO, managing partner.
Fernando is an architect graduated from the University of Malaga, in Spain, with an academic extension at the Fluminense Federal University. He has a master's degree and doctorate degree in architectural history and criticism from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, where he was a researcher at the Roberto Segre Collection and professor of architectural history.
ISABELA CANÊDO, managing partner.
Isabela is an architect graduated from the Fluminense Federal University with an academic extension at the University of Málaga, in Spain, and a postgraduate degree in space design MA.DE.IN from the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rio de Janeiro, including a module at the institute's headquarters in Barcelona, in Spain
RENAN VARGAS, collaborator.
Renan is an architect graduated from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro with academic extension at the Technical University of Braunschweig, in Germany. He joined Studio Fi in 2021 and, since then, has participated in the development of several projects.