Josh Frank, Assoc. AIA,CNU-A

Project Director / Urban Designer & Town Planner

Joshua Frank serves as Project Director and Urban Designer/Town Planner at Dover, Kohl & Partners. He has a variety of experience in the built, natural, and cultural environments, spanning the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, planning, transportation, and urban design. Josh has worked on projects ranging from campus and municipal master-planning to streetscape and public realm design throughout his native State of Florida. Josh is formerly a founding principal, as well as a distinguished Research Associate with the University of South Florida’s School of Architecture and Community Design where he received numerous awards including the AIA Bronze Medal and the eponymous Frank Award for Leadership in Research.

Most recently, Josh was recognized with the AIA Tampa Bay’s 2019 Christopher Kelley Emerging Professional Award for demonstrating exemplary service above self to champion the causes and issues of AIA chapter members, local community organizations, and beyond. Josh maintains vocal advocacy for design in the public realm and transportation as well as his #blvdtampa campaign -- a community-driven alternative to interstate expansion in Tampa’s urban core, featured nationally in the 2019 and 2021 Congress for New Urbanism’s Freeways Without Futures report, the New York Times, Tampa Bay Times, and NextCity.org. He has formerly held several appointed positions including the Tampa Bay Area Regional Transit Agency’s CAC, the Ybor City Development Corporation CRA board, and the Hillsborough County Transportation Planning Organization CAC.