Alessandro Melis

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Alessandro Melis
Born
Alessandro Melis

(1969-07-06)July 6, 1969
Cagliari, Italy
Citizenship Italian
Alma mater Università degli Studi di Firenze
Occupation Architect • Art Curator • Professor
Employer(s)Italian National Pavilion at the 17th Venice Biennale, University of Portsmouth
AwardsAmbassador of Italian Design 2020 by ADI

Alessandro Melis (born 6 July 1969) is an Italian architect and the curator of the Italian National Pavilion at the 17th Venice Biennale. [1] He is also currently a professor of architecture and the inaugural endowed chair of the New York Institute of Technology.

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Career

Alessandro Melis was born on 6 July 1969 in Cagliari, the largest city in the island of Sardinia in Italy. Melis received his Doctor of Architecture degree from the University of Florence in 1995.

In 1996, he founded Heliopolis 21, a multi-awarded architecture practice based in Italy, Germany, and the UK. The SR1938 Institute of the University of Pisa, [2] [3] the Stella Maris Hospital [4] [5] and the Auditorium of Sant’Anna, inaugurated by the president of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, [6] are acknowledged both in scholar publications and in popular magazines as examples of excellence in sustainable design. The recognition of Alessandro's research is corroborated by a record of over 150 peer review journal and book publications (including practice based research outputs) [7] such as the seminal monograph on Alessandro Gherardesca, pivotal researches on the Algerian El Houma, in collaboration with Yazid Khemri, Temporary Appropriation, with Antonio Lara Hernandez, and by as many citations. [8] [9] [10]

In 2017, Alessandro Melis and Steffen Lehmann created the interdisciplinary project CRUNCH: Climate Resilient Urban Nexus Choices: Operationalising the Food-Water-Energy Nexus. [11] This is a research project funded by Horizon 2020, Belmont Forum Belmont Forum, ESRC and other funding bodies. Alessandro Melis is leading the project on behalf of the University of Portsmouth, where he is professor of architecture innovation. [12] [7]

Appointed by the Italian Government in 2019, [1] he follows the previous curators Mario Cucinella (2018) and Tamassociati (2016), as curator of the Italian Pavilion.

In 2020, he is appointed Ambassador of Italian Design in Paris, by Adi (Associazione Disegno Industriale) and the Italian Mnistery of Foreign Affairs.

Alessandro Melis is the current IDC Foundation Endowed Chair at the New York Institute of Technology. Previously, he was director of the International Cluster for Sustainable Cities at the University of Portsmouth, [12] and the head of Postgraduate engagement at the school of Architecture and Planning of the University of Auckland. [13] He has also been invited as a keynote speaker at the China Academy of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the University of Cambridge, [14] TEDx, [15] the Italian Institute of Culture in London, the NZ Cycling Conference, the Foster Foundation (as an academic staff member), [16] and the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.

Alessandro Melis is acknowledged, together with Telmo Pievani, [17] for introducing the concept of Exaptation in Architecture. [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] His work was the object of several exhibitions and of a recent monograph (Rome, 2020) authored by several scholars of the universities of Palermo and Bari and edited by Francesco Fallacara Chirico, titled “Alessandro Melis, Utopic Real World. [23] [24]

Awards

He has been nominated as an ambassador of Italian Design 2020 by ADI and the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. [12] [25] [26]

Publications

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