CARMODY GROARKE Kevin Carmody was born in Canberra (Australia) in 1974. He studied architecture at Canberra University (Australia) and then completed his studies at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT, Australia) 189 in 1998. Following graduation, he moved to London (UK) in 1999, and worked for David Chipperfield Architects from 2000 – 2005 prior to establishing Carmody Groarke in London with Andy Groarke in 2006. He has lectured about the work of the practice internationally and taught at several schools of architecture including The Bartlett School of Architecture (University College London), The Royal College of Art , The University of Stuttgart, Cornell University (Ithaca) and Yale School of Architecture where he was William Henry Bishop Visiting Professor. Andrew Groarke was born in Manchester (UK) in 1971. He studied architecture at the University of Sheffield between 1990 and 1995 gaining professional qualification in 1996. He worked for Stephenson Somerville Bell in Manchester, Hawkins Brown, David Chipperfield Architects and Haworth Tompkins in London prior to establishing Carmody Groarke in London with Kevin Carmody in 2006. He has lectured about the work of the practice internationally and taught at several schools of architecture including The Bartlett School of Architecture (University College London), The Royal College of Art, The University of Stuttgart, Cornell University (Ithaca) and Yale School of Architecture where he was William Henry Bishop Visiting Professor. He has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield since 2012. Studio Profile Carmody Groarke was established in 2006 in London and has since received several prestigious national and international distinctions. In 2007, Carmody Groarke was distinguished with the Building Design Young Architect of the Year (YAYA). In 2010 they were recipients of the Architectural Record’s Design Vanguard and the Architectural Review’s (global) Emerging Architecture Award Thereafter, they have won several RIBA National and Regional Awards for completed projects. In 2018 the studio was awarded the Building Design Architect of the Year (AYA) Gold Award and in 2019 the National Panel Special Award by the Civic Trust and The Architects’ Journal’s Design of the Year and Cultural Building of the Year for Windermere Jetty Museum. In 2020 their Hamburg Pavilion won the BDA Hamburg Building of the Year and in 2021 they were finalists for the prestigious Swiss Architecture Award.
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