Ten to One is a published and award-winning Brooklyn New York based architectural and community design studio which has completed 100 projects in 10 years and as +Nonprofit synergistically dedicates 10% to pro bono for design equity and sustainability.

Projects are a celebration and capitalization of long odds

The Making of Ten to One

Ember Charter Public High School currently in construction

Ten to One creates projects which celebrate lives and collectively build more equitable and sustainable communities. We work across a wide spectrum of project types, scales and budgets from community development to civic institutions to residences large medium small to furniture, from landscape to interior to fabrication, facilitated through a scalable and holistic process.

Our clients are co-contributors in social investment

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Prospect Park Penthouse Duplex currently in construction

Our process is a collaborative venture with clients and constituencies through a holistic, open source and scalable integrated project delivery method. Our design process spans through long term strategic planning, client, constituent and community engagement, collaborative development of mapping, construction systems, methodologies and management, fixture and finish procurement and fabrication. We undertake projects with a dual lens of zooming out to include socio-spatial and environmental context and justice and zooming in to listen, collaborate closely with and advocate for clients.

Building can be thought of as a long term endeavor, like the building of a better city or social network, like a longer term conversation of what gets built.

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Sunset Park Multi-Generational Townhouse currently in construction

Our scope of work is customized and scaled for each project small to large and often expands beyond typical design services. We collaborate with a wide project team throughout the process and work to have MEPS building systems and construction technologies be integral to a collective design. Our design process is a balance between contextual perspective expanding outward and design strategy focusing empathically inward.

Ten to One advocates for inclusivity in our projects and fosters an inclusive studio environment in our practice.

The Making of Ten to One

Ten to One’s work has received such accolades as Rethinking the Future Honor Award / A|N Best of Design Awards Unbuilt Cultural category and Unbuilt Educational Honorable Mention / 2018 International Design Award (IDA) Bronze in Architecture / Urban Design | Architizer A+ Award Finalist Unbuilt Institutional category and Boston Society for Architecture Design Award Unbuilt category. We have contributed to the Venice Biennale as one of the multi-national team of outposts for the OfficeUS Pavilion and the Gowanus by Design Axis Civitas exhibition.

private projects represented in yellow (apartments), orange (homes), red (multi-family) and blue (commercial)

Ten to One advocates for diversity, equity and inclusion in our projects as well as practice. We exist as synergistic nonprofit and for-profit entities to ensure successful mission driven work. All Associates represent diverse nationalities, backgrounds, races, genders, LGBTIQA+, ages and span the neuro-divergent spectrum. Ten to One has held B Corp certification standards. Ten to One supports individual development both in and beyond the studio, for the greater good of each team member, to further broaden equity, nurture a holistic mission and cooperative environment with employee Associates sharing Directorship of the Ten to One Nonprofit.

Garrick Jones gjones@tenonearch.com is the founding principal of Ten to One and has worked as a designer based in New York City for 30 years. Garrick received my Master of Architecture degree from Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD) with studies in Architecture, Planning and History, with studio and Thesis work selected for publication in Harvard Magazine Studio Works. I received my Bachelor’s of Arts Degree in Drawing and Architecture from Bennington College. 

Our ‘future’ projects are urban natures, habitable domestic and civic infrastructures which are actors in the urban environment.

Prior to founding Ten to One Garrick worked in the leadership positions of Studio Director and Associate for the distinguished New York based firms Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Della Valle Bernheimer (DB, now Alloy Development and Bernheimer Architecture) and collaborated with Architecture Research Office (ARO). Notable projects include; the R House Passivhaus for Syracuse University, recipient of National and NY State AIA as well as Architect R+D and Design Awards; a multitude of mixed-use buildings in New York; numerous residences and large urban developments including Broad Plaza in Los Angeles and the Maine State Pier in Portland Maine. This work has been published most notably in the Think / Make: Della Valle Bernheimer Monograph and Blue Dream and the Legacy of Modernism in the Hamptons: A House by Diller Scofidio + Renfro. 

If you don’t see any work that fits your firm’s interests, ‘make up your own… What is the next project? What are people not thinking about?

He worked prior for a myriad of studios such as Nader Tehrani’s Office dA (now NADAAA), PKSB, HMGA (now HMA2), James Wines’ SITE, Allen Wexler Studio, Kiss + Cathcart, on such notable projects as the Robinhood Foundation’s L!brary Initiative, New York City Public Schools, the Museum of Islamic Arts in Qatar, fashion exhibitions, commercial spaces and numerous residences and worked in digital fabrication for Hudson Scenic Studio building theater sets and sculptures such as the Peter Eisenman and Silvia Kolbowski piece Like the Difference Between… for Comme des Garcons and as graphic designer and writer for book and magazine publishers such as Princeton Architectural Press, Harvard Design, ORO and Spin Magazine.

Garrick has been invited to teach as Interim Architecture Professor at Bennington College. He taught as Teaching Assistant / Associate with Jared Della Valle FAIA and Andrew Bernheimer FAIA at the Parsons School of Design Masters of Architecture and Undergraduate Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree Programs. He has been a regular design review critic for nearly a decade for numerous studios in the Pratt Bachelors of Architecture Program, as well as review critic for 20 years for Harvard GSD, Columbia University, Syracuse University, Rhode Island School of Design, Graduate and Undergraduate programs at CUNY City College of New York and the NYC College of Technology, Parsons / New School for Design, NJIT New Jersey Institute of Technology and Bennington College.

Ten to One works in partnership with Jeffrey Cole Architects who collectively have 50 years combined experience delivering 1 million square feet of successful projects ranging from private residences to large scale mixed-use developments including hotels, galleries, restaurants, and condominiums.

Special thanks to the Team = Maureen Jones + Halit Dervishaj and HD Carpentry + Chizoma Amadi + Amankae Ambia + Aimee Beattie + Brian Butterfield + Cathy Braasch + Michael Campbell + Sylvia Choi + Rachel Dao + Beth Eckels + Agla Sigriour Egilsdottir + Amy Flom + Tyler Haas + Alec Henry + Graciela Hodgson + Balqis Indriyani + Sara Jagessar + Yalda Keramati + Sara Kostic + Hannah Koufos + Caryn Lee + Heejin Lee + June Lee + Luana Lima + Abigail Lo Presti + Gus McMahon + Kim Nayoung + Michael Ascanio Peguero + Polina Pursheva + Summer Renkowitz + Lynn Sader + Sandra Servat + Margaux Schindler + Gergana Staneva + Andrew Willard + Nicola Woon

In loving memory of Jonathan Schecter

Portraits and select photos by Bill Wadman. Additional select photos by Bojune Kim. Illustrations by Polina Pursheva.

Contact us

Ten to One
1718 8th Avenue Storefront
Brooklyn NY 11215
office # 347 763 2490
email info@tenonearch.com