Thomas Kelley

Thomas Kelley (b. 1984 Canberra, Australia) is a founding partner of Norman Kelley and practices in Chicago. He received a Bachelor of Science in Architecture with Honors from the University of Virginia and a Masters in Architecture from Princeton University. He was raised in Canberra, East Berlin, Warsaw, Tegucigalpa, Oxford, Lima, and Virginia. He has previously worked in 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 Reyner Banham Fellowship from the University at Buffalo and is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome (FAAR ‘13). In addition to practice, he is an Assistant Professor in architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He has previously held teaching positions at the University at Buffalo, Syracuse University and Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.