Orla Kelly graduated with a degree in Engineering from University College Dublin in 1987 (having also studied Architecture there for 3 years). She has previously worked at Dewhurst Macfarlane & Partners and Price & Myers and has engineered several RIBA award-winning buildings over her career.
Orla combines her consultancy design work with acting as part-time technical tutor at various architectural institutions; currently to undergraduates at Central St Martins and post-graduates at the the Welsh School of Architecture . She has been in the past a tutor at Architectural schools in the Royal College of Art, Central and East London Universities, Brighton, High Wycombe, Oxford Brookes, the Architectural Association and the Bartlett.
Orla manages the teams working on medium and smaller scale projects in the office, and enjoys the detailed design as much as ever.