Native Places Drawing As A Way To See

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Frank Harmon, FAIA, has designed sustainable modern buildings across the Southeast for 30 years. He discovered architecture as a child playing in the streams and woods of his native Greensboro, North Carolina. His work engages pressing contemporary issues such as "placelessness," sustainability, and the restoration of cities and nature. His buildings are specific to their region and use materials
Frank Harmon, FAIA, has designed sustainable modern buildings across the Southeast for 30 years. He discovered architecture as a child playing in the streams and woods of his native Greensboro, North Carolina. His work engages pressing contemporary issues such as "placelessness," sustainability, and the restoration of cities and nature. His buildings are specific to their region and use materials such as hurricane-felled cypress and rock from local quarries to connect the structure to its landscape. Airy breezeways, outdoor living spaces, deep overhangs, and wide lawns embody the vernacular legacy of the South while maintaining a distinguished modernism.

Frank is a graduate of the Architectural Association in London and a professor at the North Carolina State University College of Design. A recipient of the F. Carter Williams Gold Medal, he has taught at the Architectural Association and has served as a visiting critic at Harvard, the University of Virginia, and Auburn University's renowned Rural Studio.

A noted writer and illustrator, Frank uses hand-drawn sketches and mini-essays to examine the relationship between nature and built structures in his online project Nativeplaces.org and his new critically acclaimed book, 'Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See.'

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