Paul Kelly lectures in Architectural Design Studio, Design Technology and History Theory & Criticism at the Dublin School of Architecture. He divides this time between Teaching and Practice, He is a Lecturer in Architecture and a Director of FKL architects – FKL have lectured and been exhibited nationally and internationally and have received a number of national awards and been nominated for the Mies van der Rohe European Architecture Award.

FKL curated conceived and designed the Irish entry for the Venice Biennale 2006, SubUrban to SuperRural, comprising theoretical projects by nine architects on the issue of sprawl. They were participants at the inaugural Lisbon Architecture Triennale with d-void, in 2007. In 2009 FKL initiated the Shadowland Project examining how architects can look at solutions to ghost estates.