Frank was born to be an architect. At 13 his artist father, thinking architecture was a respectable way to be an artist, gave him Frank Lloyd Wright's book "A Testament" and his fate was sealed. Frank grew up in St. Clair Shores, Michigan, graduated from Lawrence Technological University with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture in 1978, left for Columbia's Graduate School of Architecture in 1979 and graduated with a Masters in Architecture in 1982. He became a registered architect in 1984 and worked for several noted architectural firms in New York City. In 1987 he established his own architectural firm in the New York City metro area and taught architecture at New Jersey Institute of Technology in Newark, New Jersey until 1997. In 1997 Frank moved back to Michigan to work for Allen & Laux Architects in Detroit. After three productive years there, in 2000, he again established an architectural firm, FX Architecture in Royal Oak, Michigan.

Ken Frampton, the world-renowned architecture critic has called Frank Arvan "a brilliant young architect." He has won many design awards including two AIA design excellence awards and first prize in an international competition for an urban resort town in the Dominican Republic. He writes articles on architecture and urban design for Model D webzine and is the Chairman of Royal Oak's Main Street Design Committee.

Carol Ann is the Business Manager for FX Architecture LLC. She brings over 20 years of Commercial Real Estate lending, relationship management and investment banking experience, as well as two years of consulting services to the firm.

Carol Ann was born and raised in southeast Georgia. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Georgia Honors Program with a BA in Historic Preservation. She then earned her master's in Historic Preservation from the School of Architecture at Columbia University in the City of New York. After graduate school, Carol Ann married Frank. She also joined financial services giant CitiCorp (now CitiGroup) where she worked in midtown Manhattan and Westchester County for 17 years. Properties she financed throughout the country included mixed use, office, residential condominium, boutique retail, shopping centers, hotels and congregate care/assisted living. Her commercial real estate clients included Tishman Speyer Properties, Edward Minskoff and Bernard Spitzer. Carol Ann was also head of origination for CitiCorp's Commercial Mortgage Securitization Conduit.

In 1998 Carol Ann joined Frank in Michigan. For two years she worked with Conway MacKenzie & Dunleavy on real estate and automotive related turnaround and workout engagements, as well as various litigation support matters. For three years Carol Ann was a Commercial Real Estate lender with Standard Federal Bank (now LaSalle Bank). In 2005 Carol Ann joined FX Architecture, where she focuses on marketing and business development as well as project management.