Tessa Kelly and Chris Parkinson

Tessa Kelly and Chris Parkinson lead ARCADE, a community-driven design practice based in  Troy, NY and Pittsfield, MA.
We ground our projects in local history and heritage, and produce architecture and associated programming that is participatory, celebratory, and that connects us to stories of the past while building a vision for the future. We create work that engages with the urban fabric of post-industrial cities, and an understanding of the natural environments that surround them.