Kevin Carmody

Kevin Carmody is co-founding director of the London-based architecture studio Carmody Groarke.

He studied architecture at the University of Canberra and RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. After moving to the UK in 1999, he worked for David Chipperfield Architects before establishing Carmody Groarke with Andy Groarke in 2006.

Kevin has lectured internationally about the work of the practice and has taught at architecture schools in the UK, Europe and the United States, including Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cornell University, The Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London, the Royal College of Art, and the University of Stuttgart. He was appointed William Henry Bishop Visiting Professor of Architecture at Yale University in 2020, and to the Architecture Foundation Board of Trustees in 2024.

Carmody Groarke was established following early competition successes in the United States, including the Chicago Burnham Prize in 2004 and the Coney Island Parachute Pavilion in 2005. The practice has since received numerous national and international distinctions, including being shortlisted for the Mies Van Der Rohe Prize and the RIBA Stirling Prize and recipient of the Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard, the Architectural Review Emerging Architecture Award and Building Design Architect of the Year, alongside numerous RIBA National and Regional Awards and UK Civic Trust Awards for completed projects. In 2023 Carmody Groarke was included in Fast Company’s list of the World’s Most Innovative Companies.

The practice’s work has been the subject of monographic publications by 2G, El Croquis, AMAG and A+U. In 2026, Hannibal Books will publish Making a Museum: Design Museum Gent, a book documenting Carmody Groarke’s design and the construction of the renewed museum in Ghent.