Our work is a process of collaboration, discovery, creativity, and precise delivery of ideas.  That process is a way of design thinking that is inspired by the potential we find in the unique qualities of a particular site and its location, our client’s interests, building materials, and construction technologies and methods. 

Our design process is further informed by our Client’s motivations and goals to build something of personal value and character that resonates in their daily lives as well as their guests and building inhabitants. 

Regardless of the scale or type of project, the design thinking of our collaborative—both in our work process and in the end result—consistently aims to elicit a profound satisfaction from our Clients, and from others who experience the spaces and places that we create.

As our design work progresses, the drawing, sketching, writing, physical and digital modeling, and other methods of project representation create evolutionary iterations, each one building on the previous, resulting in a refined, cohesive, and comprehensively envisioned project. 

Our design intent for each project is communicated by FRANKE : FRANKE through a robust dialogue with our Clients, who are invited to be involved in the creative process practiced by our firm.  We purposefully spend a great deal of time with our Clients and stakeholders during the design process in order to fully communicate our ideas that evolve to form the project parti, or primary diagram around which each work is then fully developed and refined. 

Client communication, and partner-level involvement at every step in the creative process of a project enables us to deliver thoughtful and artful design, and precisely constructed works that can only come from passion, care, commitment, and design sensibilities derived from our 76 years of collective experience.