Adam Frampton

Adam Snow Frampton is an architect and the Principal of Only If Architecture, a New York City-based design practice for architecture and urbanism. He previously worked as an Associate at OMA in Rotterdam and Hong Kong. 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 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. This work was also exhibited in the 12th Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. His previous research and design projects have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Storefront for Art and Architecture, the Center for Architecture, and the Van Alen Institute. He holds a Masters in Architecture from Princeton University 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.