Andy Groarke

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

He studied architecture at the University of Sheffield and worked at architectural practices in London, including David Chipperfield Architects and Haworth Tompkins Architects, before establishing Carmody Groarke with Kevin Carmody in 2006.

Andy has taught in architecture schools in the US and Europe, including Harvard University 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. In 2020 he was appointed William Henry Bishop Visiting Professor of Architecture at Yale University, and has been a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of Sheffield since 2010. He has lectured internationally about the work of the practice and has serves as a member of the National RIBA Awards jury.

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. Andy was co-author of Not Forever, a book documenting Carmody Groarke’s radical conservation in action project for Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s residential masterpiece, Hill House. 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.