Sublime

His design approach at CAM was a curious mix; at times it resembled that of a Renaissance sculptor, carving away at the block until a form emerges.

Frank almost never started a design with a predetermined shape. He liked to begin by “playing”—a word he used far more often than “working” when he talked about how he went about designing things—with wooden blocks of different sizes, each representing a portion of a building’s functional program. He would then stack or array the blocks in what he