Matilde Mellini

Matilde Mellini

Teaching Associate
Rome
Department

Architecture
Contact

Palazzo Santacroce, Piazza Benedetto Cairoli 6, 00186 Rome, Italy
+39 06 689 7070
mmellini@cornell.edu
Social Media

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Born in Florence, Matilde Mellini received her Master's Degree in Architecture at the Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio (Switzerland) where, after a period abroad at the TU Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands), she graduated in 2017 with Grafton Architects, winners of Pritzker Price 2020. She collaborated with Claesson Koivisto Rune in Stockholm, GRAU in Paris, LABICS, and STARTT in Rome, spanning from architecture to industrial design and urban planning, always engaging with different scales and complexities of the project. As a freelancer, she participated in several award-winning competitions while cultivating her passion for research and design as Project Manager and Development Supervisor for the open-source research platform Non-Architecture Competitions. She is currently collaborating with the Roman-based architecture firm Schiattarella Associati, for which, between 2021 and 2023, she lived and worked in Riyadh in the Construction Supervision Office of the first Digital Art Center of Saudi Arabia, training in a first-class architecture environment.

Since 2020, she has taught in the architectural design course at the Iowa State University of Science and Technology Rome Program and, from 2024, also at Cornell University in Rome.

Academic Research/Specialty Areas

Architectural design
Architectural practice

Classes (Selected)

ARCH 4101/4102

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (Selected)

Honorable mention — Premio Federico Maggia and Fondazione Sella per il progetto "Fuori c'è Vento", Biella, Italia (Oct 2019)
Honorable mention — MAXXI + DM KM 278 for the project "Terre in Movimento", Ancona, Italia (Oct 2018)
Second Prize — Ctrl+space, international competition for the project "Spiritosa Invenzione" (May 2016)
First Prize + Construction - SCC ArchiSTART, international competition for the project "Connection Space", Lecce, Italia (Aug 2015)
First Prize + Construction - DM-KM278 con MAXXI e MAPPELAB, International competition for the project "Social Network", Senigallia, Italia (Aug 2014)

Publications (Selected)

Bestiario together with Radio Architettura