As ARCHtank continues our StudioTALKS! series, we were honored to engage in conversation with Melissa DelVecchio, Partner and Director of Research at Robert A.M. Stern Architects. We would love to thank Melissa DelVecchio for joining us and ARCHtank Internal member Tommy Soros for facilitating the event.
The COVID pandemic may have affected our in-person events, but it has allowed us to host this StudioTALK! virtually and share with you all the recording of the event. Watch below to hear about our speaker's experiences and advice to those just entering the field.
Speaker Bio
Melissa DelVecchio is a partner at Robert A.M. Stern Architects. She is the design lead for many of the firm’s most complex academic and institutional projects, and directs the Research Department. Building upon her education that included an intensive study of classical architecture and a subsequent immersion into contemporary design, her work synthesizes tradition and invention, reinforcing the many visual, social, environmental, and cultural influences that give places identity and meaning. Melissa’s projects include two new residential colleges at Yale University and the first LEED Gold-certified academic building in China. She is currently working on the restoration and adaptive reuse of the Schwarzman Center at Yale, a historic Carrère & Hastings’ building that will be transformed into a social hub for the university’s students, and the Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, the anchor for the University of Notre Dame’s new arts district.
Melissa is a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and is currently serving as the Robert A.M. Stern Visiting Professor of Classical Architecture at the Yale School of Architecture.