Thomas Kelley

Thomas Kelley (b. 1984) was raised in Canberra, Berlin, Warsaw, Tegucigalpa, Oxford, Lima, and Washington D.C. Previously, Thomas has worked for the architecture practices of Brasil Arquitetura Studio in São Paulo, Asymptote Architecture in New York, and Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill in Chicago.

Thomas is the recipient of the 2012-2013 Reyner Banham Fellowship from the University at Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning and the 2013-2014 James R. Lamantia, Jr. Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome. He is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago’s School of Architecture. In addition, Thomas is a partner in the architecture and design collaborative Norman Kelley.

Education

• Masters Princeton University (2007 — 2009)
• BA University of Virginia School of Architecture (2002 — 2006)

Companies

• Assistant Professor University of Illinois at Chicago (2016)
• Partner Norman Kelley, Inc. (2013)
• Design Critic in Architecture Harvard University Graduate School of Design (2020 — 2020)
• Clinical Assistant Professor University of Illinois at Chicago (2014 — 2016)
• Visiting Critic Syracuse University (2014 — 2014)
• James R. Lamantia, Jr. Rome Prize Fellow American Academy in Rome (2013 — 2014)
• Reyner Banham Fellow University at Buffalo (2012 — 2013)
• Visiting Assistant Professor University of Illinois at Chicago (2010 — 2013)