Beau Frail, AIA, NCARB
Project/ Principal Architect
Fox Fox Studio/ Activate Architecture
Beau Frail, AIA (he/him) is a poet, artist, and architect. Beau is passionate about community-engaged design and advancing equity and justice, including within the LGBTQIA+ community. Beau has managed multiple adaptive-reuse projects in downtown urban cores, led public interest design charrettes, and developed outreach programs with cities promoting affordable housing. Beau has served on the Texas Society of Architects (TxA) Board of Directors, where he helped launch the EDI Committee, and on the AIA National Associates Committee. He helped start LGBTQIA+ Alliances at AIA Austin and AIA New York. Beau was honored with the 2020 TxA Presidential Citation and the 2018 AIA Austin Honor Award for Community Service. Beau was selected as a Next City Vanguard, an AIA Design Justice Fellow, and an Association for Community Design Fellow.
His writing and art have been published in Architect magazine, Texas Architect magazine, Beyond Queer Words, and Trans Texas Zine. Beau was a co-editor and co-author of Out in Architecture, a book amplifying diverse LGBTQIA+ voices in architecture to create more paths for visibility and representation within our profession. Beau shared his poetry onstage as one of Rupi Kaur’s opening acts during her World Tour in 2022. He is a Project Architect at Fox Fox Studio and has his own consulting firm, Activate Architecture. He currently lives/works between Savannah, GA and Austin, TX.
His writing and art have been published in Architect magazine, Texas Architect magazine, Beyond Queer Words, and Trans Texas Zine. Beau was a co-editor and co-author of Out in Architecture, a book amplifying diverse LGBTQIA+ voices in architecture to create more paths for visibility and representation within our profession. Beau shared his poetry onstage as one of Rupi Kaur’s opening acts during her World Tour in 2022. He is a Project Architect at Fox Fox Studio and has his own consulting firm, Activate Architecture. He currently lives/works between Savannah, GA and Austin, TX.