19 Jun - 2025
Long Strides for Small Houses: The ADU Advantage
Every day, newspaper headlines point to the challenges of meeting the need for affordable housing. These concerns resonate in suburban towns and rural areas as well as in large cities. In response, the design of tiny homes, the antithesis of...
19 Jun - 2025
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater
Few buildings elicit a visceral thrill, as did Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater during a recent visit. After years of seeing this architectural masterpiece cited, it was an extraordinary experience to be there in person. Dramatically built into the rock cliff...
16 Sep - 2019
Sweden to the Jersey Shore
It’s not every day that a Swedish family decides to spend their vacations at the Jersey Shore. To enhance their summers in Spring Lake, Eva Wisemark and David Wertheim decided to expand their traditional one and a half story Cape...
20 Jun - 2019
New Porch Design Wins 2019 Montclair Historic Preservation Award
What a difference a porch makes! We are honored to announce that Francis C. Klein & Associates was the recipient of a 2019 Historic Preservation Award from the Montclair Historic Preservation Commission. Speaking on behalf of the Commission, architect John...
26 Jan - 2017
FKA Pool House Featured in Design NJ
Our Essex Fells pool house, designed in 2012, was featured in the June/July 2017 issue of Design NJ magazine. The pool house was added to look like an original farm building, situated in a field at the lower level of the...
3 Feb - 2016
6 Feb - 2015
FKA Renaissance Villa Featured in Home & Garden
Our Renaissance villa was featured in New Jersey Home & Garden, where it was praised for “combining the best of contemporary architectural design with the spirit of the Italian Renaissance… at once monumental and livable.” The article explained how the clients played “an...