Norman Kelley was founded in 2012 by Thomas Kelley and Carrie Norman, AIA. We are a collaborative practice that works in residential architecture, commercial interiors, furniture design, exhibition design, and design criticism. Our process is sensitive to place and irreverent to tradition. Our offices are located in Chicago and Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Clients and collaborators include Aesop, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Noguchi Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Beacon Capital Partners, the Graham Foundation, Notre, and the artist Brendan Fernandes, among others. Our furniture has been presented by Volume Gallery and Friedman Benda.
Our work has been published in the New York Times, Log, Avery Review, Architect Magazine, Architect's Newspaper, Cultured, Domus, Dezeen, Wallpaper, and Frame. We have contributed work to the Venice Architecture Biennial (2014, 2021), the Chicago Architecture Biennial (2015, 2017), and the Lisbon Architecture Triennale (2019). In addition, we are the recipients of the Architectural League of New York Young Architect’s Prize (2014) and a United States Artists Fellowship in Architecture (2018).