Melissa DelVecchio is an American architect, based in New York. She received her Master of Architecture degree from Yale University and her Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Notre Dame.
Melissa frequently serves on juries for design studios at Yale University and the University of Notre Dame and has lectured at the latter as well as at academic conferences in the United States, Spain, and China. Her academic roles have included serving as the Robert A.M. Stern Visiting Professor of Classical Architecture at the Yale School of Architecture, and as Visiting Critic in Classical Architecture and Urbanism at the Catholic University of America. Additionally, she is a member of the award jury for the Rafael Manzano Martos Prize, and for the Richard H. Driehaus Prize at the University of Notre Dame. In 2018, she received the Orlando T. Maione Award for distinguished contributions to the University of Notre Dame’s School of Architecture.
Work
Melissa DelVecchio is the design lead for many of RAMSA’s most complex academic and institutional projects. Her work synthesizes tradition with invention, reinforcing the many visual, social, environmental, and cultural influences that give places their unique identities and meaning.
Melissa’s projects include the Pauli Murray and Benjamin Franklin Residential Colleges at Yale University; Schwarzman College, the first LEED Gold-certified academic building in China; Wasserstein Hall at the Harvard Law School, developed in collaboration with Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. She recently completed the restoration and adaptive reuse of the Schwarzman Center at Yale, transforming a historic Carrère and Hastings’ building into a social hub for the university community, as well as the new Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, the anchor for the University of Notre Dame’s burgeoning arts district. Melissa is currently designing a new unified Library/Art Building (LAB) at The Huntington in San Marino, California, an addition to, and renovation of, the 1920 Main Exhibition Hall by Myron Hunt. She has also collaborated on the design of two private townhouse renovations in New York City, and prior to joining RAMSA, worked on single family residential projects for firms in Florida and Connecticut.
A fellow of the American Institute of Architects, Melissa serves as board chair of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art and chaired the RAMSA Fellowship jury for ten years. She is a co-author of Designs for Learning: College and University Buildings by Robert A.M. Stern Architects (2016), which showcases many of the academic projects that have been her primary design focus at the firm, and an editor of The New Residential Colleges at Yale (2017).
Further Information
Melissa DelVecchio
Partner
Robert A.M. Stern Architects
One Park Avenue
New York, New York 10016 USA
Tel.: +1 (212) 967-5100
E: m.delvecchio@ramsa.com
W: www.ramsa.com
