Frank Weeks

Frank Weeks is a SCI-Arc M.Arch 2 alum, having spent his first year in the Switzerland program, his second year at the Beethoven Street location in LA, and his thesis semester in the Japan program. He comes from a family of makers and tinkerers, having grown up around his family's machine tool and manufacturing shop in central Connecticut and explored interests in many creative endeavors from computer coding to wooden boat building to bicycles. His architectural interests began with design courses in high school which led him to the University of Virgina School of Architecture's undergraduate program and then to SCI-Arc.

Weeks is a California licensed architect and has worked both in "design" and "corporate" offices in his career. He spent 12 years in the office of Frank O. Gehry in a variety of roles including Project Architect and Virtual Surfacer, working on such built projects as the Weatherhead School of Management at CWRU in Cleveland and the Novartis campus in Basel. His propensity for "putting things together" has landed him in roles that involve rationalizing seemingly irrational geometries, detailing non-standard building systems, and solving complex and unusual planning and technical problems. In addition to his roles at Gehry's office, he was the Senior PA for Neil Denari's competition-winning Keelung cruise ship terminal in Taiwan and was a PA and detailer, responsible for documenting several complex projects in China while working for the late architect Nonchi Wang at Amphibian Arc. He has also spent time in the offices of Aedas, CallisonRTKL, and NBBJ. He is currently a Senior PA and Vice President at HKS, Inc. in LA.

Week's teaching experience encapsulates his interests in maker culture and learning-diverse individuals. He was a support instructor at SCI-Arc for a community outreach design program, "Cycles of Expression." Later he taught several years in El Camino College's Industry and Technology Division and developed and facilitated maker curricula for LA-area K-12 schools including The Mirman School for Highly Gifted Children, The Help Group, STEM3 Academy, and Elon Musk's micro school, Ad Astra, on the campus of SpaceX in Hawthorne.