Colin Duncan Frank was a British architect, born in 1940 and educated at William Ellis School, Hampstead, UK, from 1953-1958. He entered the Architectural Association’s (AA) five-year Diploma course in 1958, supported by a Second Hadley Scholarship and a Major County Award. Between his Third and Fourth years, Colin took a year out, in order to gain experience within an architectural office. For his Fifth and final year, Colin elected to study with the AA’s Department of Tropical Studies, where he enjoyed success, his Khartoum Town Hall project, being published in the AA Journal of June 1964. A letter within the AA student registration files suggests that he spent time within the office of Artur Glickman, in Tel Aviv, during the summer vacation of 1963. His final AA thesis, in 1964, was upon housing in Israel. Following graduation, Frank is recorded as working in the Central Planning Bureau, in Kampala, Uganda, in 1965. However, by the 1970s, he was living in Israel, where he worked with the landscape architect and planner, Shlomo Aronson, until at least 1979. Details of his subsequent career are not yet known to us. 

Sources 

• Architectural Association Council Minutes, 16th March, 1964. AA Archives
• Architectural Association Student Register 1945-1972, AA Archives
• Architectural Association Registrar student files, 1964, AA Archives
• Architectural Association Membership List, 1979, AA Archives
• Architectural Association Journal, Vol 80 No 883, June 1964, p32
• RIBA Kalendar, 1965, Royal Institute of British Architects, 1965, p262
• ‘Shlomo Aronson Oral History Transcript, Interviews Conducted December 5-12, 2011 By Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR Gina M. Angelone, Director’, The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Accessed 25th September, 2025: https://www.tclf.org/sites/default/files/atoms/files/Aronson-Transcript.pdf