Ten to One and Ten for All

Ten to One and their sister non profit Ten for All are a Brooklyn based design collective synergizing architectural practice with community resilience. In ten years, Ten to One have designed one hundred residential projects, while Ten for All collaborate with community based organizations on more expansive, transdisciplinary projects such as community hubs, schools, libraries, parks, ecological infrastructure, participatory cartography and futurist proposals.

All their projects share a dual perspective, zooming out to encompass socio-spatial and urban ecological context, while zooming in to support placemaking from the ground up. Ten to One and Ten for All tells the long odds story of how these dual practices developed from pro bono to not-for-profit mission driven design for equity and sustainability social and ecological justice-in projects and processes at a studio where past and present employees serve as the Board of Directors. Essays by professionals, academics and community leaders tell stories of making their own work, social and ecological resilience, holistic design, and community participation and stewardship.

Garrick Jones, founding principal of Ten to One as well as JCCo, has worked as a published and award-winning designer in New York City for nearly 25 years. He received his Master of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and Bachelor Degree in Art and Architecture from Bennington College. Garrick contributed to the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale as one of the multi-national team of outposts for the OfficeUS U.S. Pavilion. Prior to founding his own firms, he worked for such distinguished New York based firms as Diller Scofidio + Renfro, Alloy Development and Bernheimer Architecture (previously Della Valle Bernheimer). Notable completed projects include; the Loop Loft, published in Dwell Magazine’s “Inside the City’s Smartest Homes;” the R House with Della Valle Bernheimer and Architecture Research Office, recipient of National and NY AIA as well as R+D Awards; and two mixed-use new construction condominium and gallery buildings in Chelsea NY. Notable projects on the boards have included; a 14-story hotel in SoHo; the Community Innovation Campus, a mixed-use school, community center, park, and housing development in Bed Stuy Brooklyn; as well as a park and restaurant design as part of the Broad Museum development in Los Angeles with Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Work has been published in numerous publications such as October, FRAME, Architecture, Architectural Record, Metropolis, Interior Design, Dwell, as well as monographs including “Think / Make” and “From the Ground Up.”

Garrick has been invited to teach as Interim Professor at Bennington College and as Teaching Assistant with Jared Della Valle and Andrew Bernheimer at the Parsons New School for Design Master of Architecture and Undergraduate Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree Programs. He has been an invited Review Critic for Graduate and Undergraduate programs at CUNY City College of New York and the NYC College of Technology, Pratt, Parsons the New School for Design, NJIT New Jersey Institute of Technology, Columbia University, and Rhode Island School of Design.