Carl Ludwig Franck

Carl Ludwig Philipp Franck (25 September 1904 – 20 February 1985) was a German-British architect who practiced in the United Kingdom from the 1930s to the 1960s.

[1] A highly skilled draftsman, he provided detailed drawings of many of Tecton's most famous projects.

The youngest son of painter Philipp Franck,[2] Carl Ludwig was born in Berlin and studied jurisprudence in Würzburg and Freiburg from 1922 to 1926.

Concern over the safety of his Jewish wife and their family in Hitler's Germany prompted the move to England in September 1937.

Though initially interned as an enemy alien during World War II for six months, in Hutchinson Camp on the Isle of Man, when he shared a room with Fred Uhlman, he later assisted Ove Arup in ARP and engineering projects.