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Only If Architecture, PLLC
545 Eighth Ave. #650, New York, NY 10018
+1 212 216 0999
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Only If is a New York City-based design practice for architecture and urbanism founded in 2013. The practice currently consists of 6 architects and designers engaged in a range of design work from a single-family housing prototype to larger-scale urban design, research, and speculation.
In 2015 and 2016, Only If completed two projects in New York City: an espresso bar in the Fulton Street subway and an 18,000SF office interior and fashion showroom. These projects have been featured in The New Yorker, Architectural Digest, FRAME, Azure, and the Architect’s Newspaper.
Only If is currently designing two residential projects in Brooklyn set for completion in 2018 and 2019; a narrow single family house and an 84-unit affordable senior housing project.
Approaching any project, Only If seeks to focus on the fundamental questions and potentials. The ambition of this process is to create clarity and distill simplicity within often-complex circumstances and constraints. Rather than imposing additional regimes of complexity, we believe the role of the designer is to envision simple gestures and forms that impose structure, coherence, and identity. We believe in the potential of simple shapes and geometries—like circles and squares—framing and shaping underlying uncertainties and complexities.
Our work is permeated by an interest in urbanism and the possibilities it offers to other scales. We embrace simplicity over complexity, organization over appearance, models over renderings, and materialization over conceptualization. This process aims for simple solutions that achieve larger effects.
Only If signals a necessary condition. Our cities, environment, and ways of life can be re-imagined only if architecture is present.
Awards and Recognitions
ICFF / Interior Design NYCxDESIGN Awards, 2018 Honoree
Architect’s Newspaper 2018 AN Interiors Top 50
Winner, AIANY New Practices New York, 2018
Special Mention, Voyager Espresso, 2016 Architect’s Newspaper 4th Annual Best of Design Awards, Interior, Retail / Hospitality Category
New Power Generation, PIN-UP 21, Fall Winter 2016/2017
World Interior News Awards 2016
Emerging Interior Practice of the Year
Azure Magazine, 2016 AZ Awards
Voyager Espresso, Award of Merit, Commercial Interiors
Team
Adam Snow Frampton is an architect and the Principal of Only If. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation. He previously worked as an Associate at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam and Hong Kong from 2006-2013. During almost seven years there, he was involved in over 20 projects, responsible for leading teams producing architectural and urban designs in China, Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E., Bahrain, and India. Most significantly, he worked on OMA’s competition-winning design of the Taipei Performing Arts Center from 2008-2013 and led several phases of its design and construction. His independent research on Hong Kong urbanism has been published as the co-authored Cities Without Ground, which maps the city’s three-dimensional networks of pedestrian circulation and public space. His work has been exhibited in the 16th, 14th, and 12th Venice Biennale, the Museum of Modern Art, Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Center for Architecture, and the Van Alen Institute, New York. He holds a Masters in Architecture from Princeton University School of Architecture and a Bachelors of Environmental Design Summa cum Laude from the University of Colorado Boulder. He is a registered architect in the Netherlands and the United States, and a member of the American Institute of Architects.
Karolina Czeczek is an architect who has been practicing at Only If since 2015. Karolina is also a Visiting Professor at College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning (DAAP) at University of Cincinnati. She previously worked at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam and Hong Kong from 2010-2013, where she was involved in architectural and urban projects in the Netherlands, Australia, China, Morocco, and Egypt. Her independent research on Warsaw’s public pools, was selected as finalist for 2015 Praktyka scholarship program for young architects. Karolina holds two Masters degrees in architecture and urban design, from Yale University and the Cracow University of Technology. She is a Fulbright Scholar and recipient of Wirt Winchester Travel Fellowship from Yale School of Architecture. Karolina is a registered architect in the Netherlands.
Past & Current Team
Ryan Peeters
Jon Siani
Joseph Kennedy
Aurelia Adam
Matthew Davis
James Schrader
Antariksh Tandon
Francesca Pagliaro
Midori Hasuike
Yue Zhang
Min Keun Park
Jedy Lau
Joey Liang
Aleeya Khan
Pierre de Brun
Kutay Biberoglu
Angelina Andriani Putri
Kig Veerasunthorn
Stephanie Hamilton
Joseph Parrella
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