Frank Harmon (architect)

Frank Harmon is a writer, architect, professor and public speaker in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Harmon was born in Georgia and grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. He was educated in North Carolina State University’s School of Design in Raleigh, NC (1959–61) and in the Architectural Association in London, England (1967). He lives in Raleigh in the home and gardens that he and his late wife, landscape architect Judy Harmon, designed together.

Harmon has worked with the firm McMinn, Norfleet & Wicker of Greensboro, NC (1968–70) and Richard Meier & Associates, New York (1970–73). He was a principal in the firm Harmon & Simeloff RIBA in London from 1974 to 1979, before founding his current firm, Frank Harmon Architect, in Raleigh in 1985. The firm was ranked 13th among the nation's Top 50 firms by Architect magazine In 2010.

He has been a visiting critic at Columbia University, the University of Toronto, the University of Virginia, UNC-Charlotte, the University of Liverpool, and Cambridge University since 1981. He has taught at the Architectural Association, Auburn University, and North Carolina State University, where he is currently a Professor In Practice in the College of Design. In 2009, he was selected to present the annual Harwell Hamilton Harris Lecture at the college. In 2014, Harmon was a featured lecturer at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

In 1995, Harmon received the North Carolina Architecture Foundation’s Kamphoefner Prize for Distinguished Design Over a Ten-Year Period. The Raleigh News & Observer named him “Tarheel of the Week” in 2005. A fellow of the American Institute of Architects, he is also a founding member of the Triangle Architecture Design Society (TADS).

Harmon is a veteran judge for architecture design awards across the nation and a much-sought-after speaker at regional and national design conferences. He presented “Architects Discuss America’s New Regionalism” during the 2005, 2006, and 2007 National AIA Conventions, and was an invited speaker for Dwell Magazine’s Dwell On Design Conference in San Francisco. He was subsequently featured in Dwell’s “Conversations” sections. He has also been featured on “The Story” with Dick Gordon (American Public Radio).

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