Predock_Frane Architects was established in Santa Monica, California in 2000 as a collaborative research and development architecture studio. During the last four years, the firm has attempted to weave together a series of explorations that deal with oppositions, analogues/site specificity, the erosion of traditional disciplinary boundaries and environmental intelligence. They feel that these areas are present in the current world landscape, ripe with potential, yet under-explored in the built world.

Architectural Record named Predock_Frane one of ten emerging international architects in 2002. They recently won a national AIA Honor Award for The Center of Gravity Foundation Hall - a Zen Buddhist Monastery in Northern New Mexico, and were short listed as a finalist for the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art. Current Projects include: The Central California Museum of History, A new Kid Space and Family Room for the J. Paul Getty Museum, The 18th Street Arts Center, A new Inn and Spa for The French Laundry (in collaboration with Antoine Predock), and The GardenLab Experiment - a multidisciplinary exhibition at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.

John Frane was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and received his BArch in 1993 from the University of Texas at Austin. Hadrian Predock was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and received his MArch in 1993 from Harvard's Graduate School of Design.