his firm, he has brought to a national audience a glimpse of the unique character and architectural culture of his home state... Frank cares about how his buildings enhance the lives of those who use them. He cares about how they are crafted and detailed. He cares about how they tread softly upon their sites, and he cares deeply about the contribution his buildings make to the architectural legacy of North Carolina. Authorship Harmon is a writer on architectural issues and has been published in the international Docomomo Journal. An essay he wrote on North Carolina architecture, "About Corncribs and the Unpainted Aristocracy," was published in Inform: Architecture + Design in the Mid-Atlantic. He is also the author of the website "Native Places," a collection of thoughts and hand-drawn sketches that illustrate the value of looking closely at buildings and places. "Native Places" is reprinted in Custom Home magazine. Recognition Harmon has received thirty-seven AIA North Carolina awards (as of 2010). In 2003, a vacation house he designed in the Bahamas was named Project of the Year by Residential Architect magazine. In 2005, the same magazine named his firm Top Firm of the Year. In 2004, the Iron Studio Harmon that designed for the Penland School of Arts and Crafts, received a Business Week/Architectural Record Honor Award. In 2009, two residences he designed received National AIA Housing Awards. Harmon's firm also won the professional design competition for the AIA North Carolina Center for Architecture & Design, which was completed in downtown Raleigh, NC, in 2012. Harmon was featured in the "Conversations" section of Dwell magazine in 2007 and on "The Story" with Dick Gordon (American Public Radio) in 2008. In 2015, he was the featured speaker at Space City for AIA Seattle's design conference. Registrations His registration includes the North Carolina Board of Architecture (1970), the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards (1970), the State of New York (1973) and Architects Registration Council of the United Kingdom (1978). References External links North Carolina Modernist Houses - Frank Harmon FrankHarmon.com Residential Architect Architect Magazine Architect Magazine AIA Guide to the Frank Harmon Papers 1961-2019 American architects Living people North Carolina State University alumni Auburn University faculty University of Virginia people Columbia University people University of North Carolina at Charlotte North Carolina State University faculty Year of birth missing (living people)