USF Architecture Lecture: Adam Frampton of Only If Architects
Tue Jan 23, 5:30 PM - Tue Jan 23, 7:30 PM

The USF SACD Spring 2018 lecture series presents Adam Frampton and Karolina Czeczek of Only If, a New York City-based design practice for architecture and urbanism founded in 2013. Only If is engaged in a range of design work from interiors to housing, to larger-scale urban design, research, and speculation. Only If is currently designing two residential projects set for completion in 2019; a narrow single-family house and an 84-unit affordable senior housing project, both located in Brooklyn, New York. 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.

In 2016, Only If was named part of PIN-UP Magazine’s New Power Generation and was awarded the Interior Emerging Practice of the Year by the World Interior News. Only If’s projects have been featured in the New Yorker, Architectural Digest, Frame, Azure, and the Architect’s Newspaper. Only If’s work is currently exhibited at 2017 Chicago Biennial and will be featured at upcoming 2017 Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism and Architecture (UABB) in Shenzhen.

Adam Snow Frampton, AIA is the Principal of Only If, a New York City-based design practice for architecture and urbanism. Adam Frampton is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Columbia University GSAPP and co-author of Cities Without Ground (2012). He previously worked for seven years as an Associate at OMA in Rotterdam and Hong Kong. He holds an M.Arch from Princeton University and is a registered architect in the Netherlands and the US.

Karolina Czeczek is an architect who has been instrumental in the design of Only If’s key projects. She previously worked at OMA in Rotterdam and Hong Kong from 2010 through 2013. She holds M.Arch from Yale University and the Cracow University of Technology and is a registered architect in the Netherlands. She is a Fulbright Scholar and recipient of 2015 Yale’s Winchester Travel Fellowship with research travel through South America