Office Frayne Vajda is an emerging multidisciplinary design office with experience in architecture, urban design, and public art. Collectively, Lukas and Oliver have ten years of design expertise that ranges from objects to spaces to districts and everything in between. Both designers value site histories and context, material sensibilities, and engaging interactivity for all users. They have experience in project management, ensuring creative works are delivered on time and maximize return on project budgets.

Together, Lukas and Oliver have working and lived experience on all continents except Antarctica. Their profound curiousity and openess to cultures, histories, geographies, and places drives their collaborative spirit as an office. Office Frayne Vajda welcomes partnerships that help bring ideas to life: including municipalities, arts councils, industry partners, researchers, and community groups. This is achieved through a transparent process of dialogue, making, and iterating. Their Canadian and international experience informs an approach that recognizes and values that high-quality design shapes who we are, how we make sense of our environment, and how we imagine a fulfilling, creative life.


Oliver Frayne was most recently a project manager and lead designer at a public art firm and has designed for a variety of contexts across North America, including projects in British Columbia and Alberta. Trained as an architect and urban designer, he has experience in Canada, and abroad - in China and Australia. He was recently part of a team that developed an audio installation of Art Basel as part of the Architectural Association Visiting School program. In 2024 he was invited guest for Visual Histories at the New School Parsons School of Design, New York. He presented Béton Toblerones, work he completed in Switzerland with Portuguese designer André Marinho. While maintaining this design practice, Oliver is completing his doctoral studies in urban planning, with a focus on the aesthetics of public space and the quality of civic life. This summer, he taught the undergraduate Urban Design Seminar at the University of Waterloo, School of Planning. He is also developing a collaborative drawing collective, Trait, to practice the transformation of drawing ideas into form.  

Lukas Vajda is a multi-genre designer with technical and conceptual expertise, and architecture experience in residential and high-rise design.  He has worked in Czechia at Chybik + Kristof, an award-winning architecture practice, as well at renowned Chilean design practice Pezo von Ellrichshausen. Here Lukas designed projects at various scales: from pavilion to residential homes, to design development of a Botanical Garden in South Korea. In Canada, Lukas has collaborated with architects and artists, leading the design and installation of gallery art works. He is currently working for PUBLIC WORK in Toronto, an urban design and landscape architecture studio, where he is working on numerous projects under construction. In addition to his design work in Canada, Lukas is the project designer of a residential house currently under construction in Martin, Slovakia. 

Return to the Worklist for a selection of our multidisciplinary design projects.