Thomas Kelley, who operates an architecture collaborative with Carrie Norman under the pseudonym Norman Kelley, will lecture about their latest work on Tuesday, September 22, as part of MAS Context's 2015 Fall Talks series. The lecture will take place at the Charnley-Persky House, headquarters of the Society of Architectural Historians.
Norman Kelley is a draftsman who likes to draw on buildings. Most recently, NK has projected their line work onto the walls of four prestigious institutions: The American Academy in Rome, The Architectural League of New York, the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and most recently, the Chicago Architecture Biennial. At each venue, the act of drawing was the event and the drawing itself is the architecture. A closer look reveals NK's interest in context – the drawing a visual essay on the history of the site. Like a Bridget Riley painting, the drawings are designed to mask their precise beginnings and confound the observer into collapsing the gap between the analog and the digital.
Thomas Kelley (M. Arch Princeton University, B.Arch University of Virginia) was raised in Canberra, Berlin, Warsaw, Tegucigalpa, Oxford, Lima, and Washington D.C. Thomas is the recipient of the Peter Reyner Banham Fellowship from SUNY Buffalo and the Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome. He is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor at the UIC School of Architecture and operates an architecture collaborative with Carrie Norman under the pseudonym Norman Kelley. The practice has been awarded the 2014 Young Architect's Prize by the Architectural League of New York and their design work is currently represented by Volume Gallery in Chicago.
This talk is organized in collaboration with the Society of Architectural Historians and presented in partnership with the Chicago Architecture Biennial.
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Date.- Tuesday September 22, 2015.
Venue.- Society of Architectural Historians, Charnley-Persky House – 1365 N. Astor Street, Chicago, Illinois 60610, USA
