Jayne Kelley is currently director of the Architecture and Design Open Archive, a new center for research and publication at UIC shared across the School of Architecture and the School of Design. She also teaches seminars and lecture courses in the School of Architecture.
Her research and professional interests relate to the mediation of architecture and design—in particular, how these disciplines meet a wider public. She is active as an editor and editorial advisor; she has also worked extensively on projects related to institutional communications and archives, including at both UIC and the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), in Montreal.
She is co-editor of two volumes of The Museum Is Not Enough (no. 1–9, CCA/Sternberg, 2019; no. 10–14, CCA/Lenz, 2025) and American Framing (Park, 2023) and co-author of The Western Town (Hatje Cantz, 2013). Her writing has appeared in Area, Clog, the Journal of Architectural Education, MAS Context, NESS, OASE, and Flat Out, where she is a member of the editorial board. She has also collaborated in various ways with the Architect’s Newspaper, the CCA, M+, the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize at Illinois Institute of Technology, and several architecture and design practices.
