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Architectural section and elevation drawings with abstract geometric patterns and structural details in black and white linework by Adam Frampton.
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Adam Frampton

ArchitectResidentialMultifamily & Development

Founder & Principal at Only If

Adam Frampton is founder and principal of Only If, a New York architecture and urbanism practice he established in 2013 with Karolina Czeczek. He holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design from the University of Colorado Boulder and a Master of Architecture from Princeton University. From 2006 to 2013 he worked as an Associate at OMA in Rotterdam and Hong Kong, contributing to more than 20 projects including the competition-winning Taipei Performing Arts Center. He is co-author of 'Cities Without Ground: A Hong Kong Guidebook' and has exhibited at the Venice Architecture Biennale. He teaches as adjunct assistant professor at Columbia GSAPP.

Experience

  1. Founder & Principal

    Only If

    2013 – present

    Current

  2. Associate

    OMA

    2007 – 2013

Past projects

  1. Narrow House

    2021

    Residential · Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, NY

    Self-initiated single-family house on a 13'4" wide by 100' deep lot; prototype for infill in constrained urban spaces

  2. Brooklyn Senior Affordable Housing

    Residential · Brooklyn, NY

    Located on a former industrial site; intended to frame collective space and define community among elderly residents

  3. Irregular Development

    2017

    New York City, NY

    Catalog of vacant, irregular lots throughout NYC with speculative housing prototypes; research and exhibition

  4. Flatiron Portal

    2019

    Cultural · New York, NY

    Temporary installation based on Flatiron building geometry; semi-enclosed space with ramped surface and forced perspective

  5. Love Labyrinth

    Cultural · Times Square, New York, NY

    Temporary installation consisting of glass cylinders; both symbol and enclosed space

  6. Voyager Espresso

    Retail

    Small espresso bar based on positive circular volume of barista counter and negative circle volume grotto

  7. An Office for Three Companies

    Workplace

    Interior environment structured by black and white

  8. Cities Without Ground

    2012

    Hong Kong

    Publication mapping Hong Kong's three-dimensional pedestrian circulation networks and public space

Awards & press

  • AIA New York, Narrow House

    AIA New York · 2025 · Merit

  • AIA Brooklyn, Narrow House

    AIA Brooklyn · 2023 · Excellence

  • Design Vanguard

    Architectural Record · 2022

  • Interior Design NYCxDESIGN, Narrow House

    Interior Design NYCxDESIGN · 2022 · Winner, City House

  • Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize, Narrow House

    IIT Mies Crown Hall · 2022 · Nominated Project

  • 50 Best Architecture Firms

    Domus Magazine · 2020

  • Next Progressives

    Architect Magazine · 2019

  • AN Interior 50

    Architect's Newspaper · 2019

  • AIANY New Practices New York

    AIANY · 2018 · Winner

  • Emerging Interior Practice of the Year

    World Interior News · 2016

Education

  • Princeton University

    M.Arch

Selected work

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