About the Author

Alan I W Frank, son of the original owners, is president of the Alan I W Frank House Foundation, whose mission is to restore and preserve the Frank House.

Kenneth Frampton is one of the world's leading architectural historians of modernist architecture.

Barry Bergdoll, former curator of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art, is a professor of modern architectural history at Columbia University.

Charles A. Birnbaum is president and CEO of the Cultural Landscape Foundation.