Frank Harmon has won his fair share of accolades for design over the years. But no occasion evoked such a pointed reaction to his work as the judging of the entries for AIA North Carolina in 1999, when Harmon swept the competition by winning three out of four Honor Awards in his home state. On that day awards juror Max Protetch, the New York gallery owner, opened the concealed identification tucked into the submissions for three very accomplished, but very different, buildings by Harmon—and was stunned to learn of their common authorship. “I don’t who this guy is,” Protetch reputedly said, “but he’s either a genius or a schizophrenic.”

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