ABOUT
SHIFT is an innovative, highly collaborative design studio. The practice was founded by Arnaldur Schram, Erick Carcamo and Simon Stigsby and has established itself in a broad range of projects of different scales, from urban planning to residential and interiors.
Our fundamental commitment is to join innovation with social responsibility. We understand design to be a pragmatic process based on possibilities and discovery, not limited by restraints or preconceptions. Through inventive thinking, we see challenges as potential opportunities to excel the intelligence and quality of our projects. We approach every project with an interdisciplinary mindset - bringing together a field of knowledge and expertise.
SHIFT aims at evoking the new and questioning the standard through exploration, open dialogue and critical thought.
WHO
ARNALDUR SCHRAM (ADDI) is a principal at SHIFT. He co-founded SHIFT in 2008, after heading the branch office of THG Architect in New York and serving as an architectural designer at MIN-Arc in Santa Monica, CA. Addi brings a diverse set of projects and experience to SHIFT, including project management, construction supervision and art installations.
Addi is an active member and co-founder of Los Angeles based creative collaborative, The Masses, and is a critical writer on architecture in his native Iceland. Born in Reykjavik, he holds a business degree from the Commercial College of Iceland and a B.Arch degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture SCI-Arc. He has won numerous international architecture awards.
ERICK CARCAMO is a principal and co-founder of SHIFT. He teaches architecture at Columbia University, Pratt Institute and has recently taught at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He has worked as a senior designer for Coop-Himmelb(l)au, Hernan Diaz-alonso’s Xefirotarch and Asymptote Architecture. At Asymptote, he was senior and lead designer of the recently winning international competition of Penang Global City towers in Malaysia and the Investor Relations VW in Wolfsburg, Germany.
Born in El Salvador, Erick holds a master’s degree in Advanced Architectural design from Columbia University and a B. Arch degree from the Southern California Institute of Architecture SCI-Arc. His work has been published in numerous magazines and featured in numerous exhibitions including Hernan Diaz-Alonso’s “Pitch Black.”
SIMON STIGSBY is a principal at SHIFT and an active member of the Architects’ Association Denmark (AA). In addition to his work on national and international retail, residential and commercial projects, he has worked with Eisenman Architects and the Danish architecture firm 3XN. At Eisenman Architects, Simon worked on the 40 year retrospective installation “Barefoot on white-hot walls,” at the MAK | Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna. He was also central to several international competitions and client design proposals including the City of Culture of Galicia and the Rutgers University master plan.
Born in Copenhagen, Simon holds a Master’s degree from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture and a Bachelor’s degree from London’s University of Westminster, School of Architecture and the Built Environment.