Christine G. H. Franck is a designer, educator, and author based in Denver, Colorado. Now in her 25th year of practice, she leads her own award-winning design firm, Christine G. H. Franck | STUDIO, which offers full residential building, landscape, and decorative design services. Complementary to her design work, Franck lectures and writes on the topics of architectural design, Classical architecture, and American domestic architecture, including her book “Traditional American Rooms,” co-authored with Brent Hull. She began her career interning with the office of Allan Greenberg, Architect and serving as the first executive director of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA). 

As a leader in design education and non-profit development, she has developed and directed programs for institutions such as the ICAA and The Prince of Wales’s Foundation. She has held teaching appointments from the schools of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame, Georgia Tech, and the University of Colorado Denver. Most recently she created the Center for Advanced Research in Traditional Architecture (CARTA) at the University of Colorado Denver College of Architecture & Planning and served as its first director. 

She has been honored for both her educational and design work. HRH The Prince of Wales awarded her his only Public Service Award of The Prince’s Foundation for the Built Environment, she is the 2016 Clem Labine Award laureate, and winner of the first Baldwin Prize. Her design work has garnered a Palladio Award, an ICAA John Staub award, an Historic Fort Worth award, and more. Her work has been published in Architecture, Residential Architect, New Old House, Period Homes, and The Classicist, among others and been exhibited at shows in America and Europe such as Buildings Made by Hand, The Art of Building Cities, A Decade of Art and Architecture, New Palladians, and at the RIBA’s “Palladian Design.” 

Ms. Franck currently serves as Chair of the US Chapter of the International Network of Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism (INTBAU) and on the board of the National Civic Art Society (NCAS). She has previously served as trustee, advisor, chair, or member of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA) National and Rocky Mountain Chapter boards, INTBAU, the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture Advisory Council, the Baldwin Hardware Design Council, and the New Urban Guild. 

She holds a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia and a Master of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame. Her design sensitivity was developed at an early age in her hometown of Williamsburg, Virginia and the cities she has been fortunate to call home: New York, Washington, Denver, Bath, Carthage, and Rome.