Miriam Kelly

RIBA, ARB, AABC, AIA Int. Assoc.

Miriam is an Architect (UK) accredited in building conservation, with twenty years’ experience working in some of the most important historic sites in the USA and UK. Miriam assists clients adapting old buildings for new uses, best-practice conservation and heritage management. She works on buildings of all ages and styles, and has expertise restoring mid-century modern structures. Miriam has particular experience sensitively upgrading historic museums and public landscapes to meet modern visitor and management needs. Her clients have included the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Royal Collection, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Historic England and the Royal Pavilion Estate. She was a Principal at Beyer Blinder Belle Architects & Planners in New York, having previously worked in the Creative Reuse Team at Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios in the UK.

Miriam serves on the Advisory Board of the New York Landmarks Conservancy. She is a Scholar of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings and Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust.

Miriam is a lecturer and critic at the universities of Harvard, Columbia, New York and Pennsylvania. She was Adjunct Professor of Adaptive Reuse at New York University, and has previously taught at the Universities of Bath and Edinburgh in the UK. Miriam regularly presents at conferences and contributes to architectural heritage journals.