Karen A. Franck
Karen A. Franck is a professor in the New Jersey School of Architecture and the College of Science and Liberal Arts at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She also serves as Director of the PhD Program in Urban Systems. She holds a PhD in environmental psychology from the City University of New York. Her research interests related to cities have included alternative housing, the role of building and place type, food and the city, and possibilities for unplanned uses of urban public space. Publications related to these interests are: New Households, New Housing, edited with Sherry Ahrentzen (Van Nostrand Reinhold 1989), Ordering Space: Types in Architecture and Design, edited with Lynda Schneeloth (Van Nostrand Reinhold 1994), Food and the City (guest-edited issue of Architectural Design 2005) and Loose Space: Possibility and Diversity in Urban Life (Routledge 2006). She is currently completing a book on the relationship between architects and clients.
Dr. Karen Franck, Program Director
Institution: NJIT
Office: 566 School of Architecture
Phone: 973-596-3092
Email: karen.a.franck@njit.edu