Ten to One, founded by Garrick Jones, is a Brooklyn based design studio that in 6 years has completed over 80 projects in a wide array of project types, scales and budgets, ranging from urban design to schools to mixed-use developments to homes to apartments to follies to furniture, from high end residential to urban revitalization projects. Each project informs the next.
Our work is a collaborative venture with our clients, performed in collaboration with numerous other designers and fabricators. We have a partner firm, Jones Cole Collaborative (JCCo), which we integrate with as needed, particularly on larger projects.
We customize our services for each project, ranging from design consultation to full design services, proforma and zoning analysis to budget estimating, strategic planning to capital campaigning, construction management to design/build.
Ten to One refers to long odds. We seek to create magical spatial narratives which enrich the everyday lives of our clients. Our design process seeks opportunities along spectrums between practicality and folly, material agglomeration and differentiation, analog and digital, private and public, urbane and wild.
Ten to One advocates for equity and sustainability in our projects as well as our practice. Ten to One invests a minimum of 10% - currently 15% - of our resources to equitable civic engagement, sustainability and pro bono projects. We are B Corp Certified. Most of our employees are minority, women or LGBTQ.
Garrick Jones, Founding Principal
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.
