Melissa DelVecchio, FAIA

Melissa DelVecchio, Partner, is the design lead for many of the firm’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; and a forthcoming modernization of the historic Huntington Library in San Marino, California. 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 a member of the Richard H. Driehaus Prize jury, honoring traditional architecture with an emphasis on sustainability, and the Rafael Manzano Martos Prize jury, which recognizes new traditional design on the Iberian Peninsula. She has served on design juries at schools including Yale and Notre Dame, where her contributions to the school were recognized with the 2018 Orlando T. Maione Award.

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. 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. 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 complex academic projects that have been her primary design focus at the firm, and an editor of The New Residential Colleges at Yale (2017).