Adams’s design work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows, including “Ruralopolitan Maneuvers: Beijing’s Urban and Rural Villages,” with his Taubman College collaborators Robert Mangurian and Mary-Ann Ray, at China In Flux: Mapping The Middle Zone [Shanghai]; “The Asclepius Machine” at the University of California, Berkeley; and “Reyner Banham Loves Beijing” at the Third Architectural Biennial Beijing. His design project, “The Asclepius Machine: Genetic Diversity and Extreme Urban Euphoria,” a complex wheelchair-accessible ramp, received an honorable mention in the Seoul International Design Competition in 2010.

In 2005, Adams co-founded B.A.S.E.beijing with Mangurian and Ray. His recent efforts at B.A.S.E. include directing and producing a documentary film, Disability and Dragons: Health Infrastructure and Architecture in Urban-Rural China (2017) and an interdisciplinary research project, “Teledermic Health Architecture,” a wearable technology that measures key biometric parameters, delivers pharmaceuticals, and incorporates aspects of traditional Chinese medicine.