Carl Franck

Background

The youngest son of painter Philipp Franck, Carl Ludwig was born in Berlin and studied jurisprudence in Würzburg and Freiburg from 1922 to 1926.

Career

A highly skilled draftsman, he provided detailed drawings of many of Tecton"s most famous projects. Continuing his studies under the architect and artist Hans Poelzig, he spent another four years, 1926–1930 at the Technical University of Berlin and, for the next two years, until 1932, worked as an assistant at the Franz Masser architectural firm. A scholarship enabled him to study in Rome during 1932-1933, until opening his own architectural firm in 1936.

In his post-Tecton career he designed the Finsbury Estate in Islington, including the Finsbury Library.

He was the author of The villas of Frascati, 1550-1750, London, Tiranti, 1966, a revised English translation of his earlier German study Die Barockvillen in Frascati, Munich, Deutschkunstverlag, 1956. Carl Ludwig Franck died in London at the age of 80.

Ove Arup

Berthold Lubetkin

Denys Lasdun

Douglas Carr Bailey

Francis Skinner (architect).

Membership

He was a member of the architectural practice Tecton from the late 1930s to its dissolution in 1948.

Connections

enemy:

Fred Uhlman