Frank is an architect and urban designer, practicing as a partner with Urban Field Studio, based in San Francisco Bay area.  His work spans the United States with a focus on design of sustainable urban environments, including transport station districts, city neighborhoods, and greater downtown areas.  He has been working with the Deutsche Bahn team and the California High Speed Rail Authority for the past three years on station planning and urban design of transit-oriented development for six of the California stations.
 
Frank’s undergraduate education was in architecture at Princeton University and his graduate degrees are in architecture and city planning from the University of California, Berkeley.  Frank participates in the programs of the Urban Land Institute, the Mayor’s Institute on City Design, the American Institute of Architects, and numerous Design Awards Juries.  Frank has taught in the Architecture and Urban Design programs at the University of California, Berkeley and has lectured in Scandinavia and around the United States.