Karolina Czeczek

Karolina Czeczek

Critic

Karolina Czeczek is a Principal of Only If—, a New York City-based design practice for architecture. Only If’s projects span a range of different types and scales, from interiors, to single- and multiple-family housing, to larger-scale urban planning, research, and speculation.

Only If been recognized as part of Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard (2022), Domus Magazine’s 50 Best Architecture Firms in the World (2020), Architect Magazine’s Next Progressives (2019), and a winner of the AIA’s New Practices New York (2018). Only If’s work has been nominated for the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize (2022). Only If’s People’s Pool project is part of the inaugural exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, “Architecture Now: New York, New Publics,” featuring projects that envision a more accessible, sustainable, and equitable New York. Only If is also a winner of the Big Ideas for Small Lots competition, organized by NYC HPD, to develop affordable housing on the narrow lots in New York City.

Czeczek has previously taught design studios at the University of Pennsylvania, Syracuse University, the University of Kentucky, Pratt Institute, and the University of Cincinnati. Czeczek is a Fulbright Scholar and recipient of the Wirt Winchester Travel Fellowship from Yale School of Architecture. Czeczek is a registered architect in the Netherlands and Poland and previously worked at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in Rotterdam and Hong Kong

Education
MSc, Cracow University of Technology
MArch, Yale University
Practice
Only-If

Courses

4256
Summer 2024
Housing: The Constitutional Right
Tatiana Bilbao, Karolina Czeczek
1115
Spring 2024
Advanced Design Studio: Lazy Sunday Morning
Tatiana Bilbao, Karolina Czeczek
1105
Fall 2023
Rhode Island Ecotopia
Dan Wood, Karolina Czeczek
4256
Summer 2023
Housing: The Constitutional Right
Tatiana Bilbao, Karolina Czeczek
1113
Spring 2023
Advanced Design Studio: Root and Innovation: Rediscovery of Majiayao Contemporary
Zhu Pei, Karolina Czeczek
1113
Spring 2022
Advanced Design Studio
Frida Escobedo, Karolina Czeczek
1113
Spring 2021
Advanced Design Studio: Lost Commons
Tatiana Bilbao, Karolina Czeczek