Vincenzo Melluso

My own doing within architecture is always characterized by the urge to allow the project to generate space to contain a plurality of roots and conditions. My research is based upon the need of clearness, essentiality and order through which the project may conjugate the relation between inside and outside, between public and private.
It is all about a curious and careful research tending to identify space so to catch its own real and most secret essence.
This process of observation is enriched by my own Mediterranean roots; there I find inspiration to play the lights-and-shadows game, the only one capable to  exalt shapes and colors.


Vitale-Dusensky House, Puglia

Musarra Fundation, Capo d'Orlando (ME)

Church and Parish Complex, Potenza

Barbera House, Messina


2007 Urban reconfiguration of a Mondello area, Palermo
Call for ideas – Mentioned project

2004 Auditorium, Service and Park facilities, Schio (VI)

2003 Administrative Centre, Reutte (Austria).
Project admitted to the 2nd phase – 6th prize ex-equo

2003 Restoration and enlargement of a School Complex, Mariatal (Austria) Project admitted to the 2nd phase – 5th prize

2003 Reconfiguration and re-functioning of the historical district of San Pietro, Vicenza - Winning project

2001 Reconfiguration of the Rennweg area, Innsbruck (Austria)
Project admitted to the 2nd phase – 3rd prize ex-equo

2000 New Public Library, Auditorium and Cultural Centre, Turin

1999 Church and Parish Complex, Potenza
Winning project – under construction

1999 Cultural Centre and Municipal Offices, Pegognaga (MN)

1999 New Thermal Complex and Hotel facilities, Merano (BZ)

1999 New Chamber of Commerce head-office and Municipal Offices, Bolzano

1999 “I.U.A.V.” Faculty of Architecture new buildings at Giudecca, Venice

1998 Detached site of the “Free University of Bolzano”, Brixen (BZ)

1998 New site for the “Free University of Bolzano”, Bolzano

1997    Restoration and reconfiguration of  “Villa Clemente”, Roseto degli Abruzzi (TE)

1995 Baseball field and district service facilities, Messina

1993 Restoration of the EXPO 98 Area, Lisbon

1985 Credito Industriale Sardo new head office, Cagliari.
Project mentioned


2009 Nomination for the “Premio di Architettura” – ANCE – Catania Prize

2008 Exhibition “Italy now. Country Positions in Architecture”, promoted by the Federal Polytechnic ETH Zurich

2006 Nominated for the “Italian Architecture Gold Medal” promoted by Milan Triennale

2005 Exhibition ”Italian Architects under 50” promoted by Milan Triennale/Faculty of Architecture, Milan Polytechnic

2005 Exhibition “Italy now” promoted by the Architecture College, Art and Planning of Cornell University, Ithaca/New York (USA)

2002 Exhibition “New Italian Architecture” promoted by the Graz Haus der Architektur – Graz, Prague (Catalogue published by Federico Motta, Milan 2002)

2002 “From Futurism to the possible future”, promoted by the “Italy in Japan 2001” Foundation and by the National Council of the Architects – Tokyo, Kobe, Bruxelles

2002 Monographic exhibition “Six Architectures” promoted by DESSA Architectural Gallery, Ljubljana (Slovenia)

2002 Invited to the VIII edition of the International Architecture Exhibition of Venice Biennale within the special section “Lonely living”.

1996 Invited to the VII edition of the International Architecture Exhibition of Venice Biennale, within the section “Italian Participation”

1996 Selected for the Piran Architecture Award

1994 “Contemporary Italian Architecture” Exhibition, Milan – Palermo

1993 Awarded with “The New generation Architecture” Prize, promoted by the magazine d’Architettura

1990 Mention within the  IN/ARCH Sicily Award


2008 Residential building, Tunis

2007 Barbera House, Messina – under construction

2007 Study for the Residential Complex of an Historical Park, Verona

2006 Musarra Fundation, Capo d'Orlando (ME) – under construction

2006 Palace of Justice, S. Agata di Militello (ME)

2005 Vitale-Dusensky House, Puglia – under construction

2004 Project for the Auditorium, Service and Park facilities, Schio (VI)

2003 Würth Logistics, Administration building, Capena/Roma

2003 Study for Service and Parking building, Campus of Engineering Faculty of Reggio Calabria

2002 Residential building, Caronia Marina (ME)

2002 Würth Headquarters, Logistics and Museum facilities, Capena/Rome

2001 Study for a new School Complex, Termini Imerese (PA)

2001 Plan for multiservice building and congress facilities, Messina

1999 Church and Parish Complex, Potenza  - under construction

1999 Costanza House, Sicily – Thyrrenian Coast

1997 Project for a Mechanic Lift system for the urban park, San Giovanni Gemini (AG)

1996 Study for the new Chair-lift Station, Merano, (Alto Adige/Tyrol)

1995 Plan for Residential and Office Building, Messina

1995 Study for the reconfiguration of Ponte Gardena area, (Alto Adige/Tyrol)

1994  Plan for a new rehabilitation and multi-outpatients Centre, S. Agata Militello (ME)

1991 Exhibition and craftsmanship activity Building, Saponara M., (ME)

1991 Exhibition and Trade Building for ceramics, Santo Stefano C. (ME) – under construction

1991 Plan for new multi-outpatient Building and health care Offices,  Francavilla S. (ME)

1990 Civic Centre and Bus Station, Montalbano E. (ME) – under construction

1990 Study for Parish Complex, Oliveri (ME).

1990 Study for a new square, Santa Maria del Ponte/L’Aquila

1989 Plan of multifunctional and residential quarters, Pistunina/ME

1989 Design for a square and a School Complex, S.Pelino, Avezzano (AQ)

1989 Offices and Warehouse for  Logistic Company, Tremestieri (ME)

1988 Plan for University in Reggio Calabria new Department

1987 Study for new Stock Exchange, Avezzano (AQ)

1987 Master plan and Study for Residential Buildings, Montalbano E. (ME)

1986 Plan for new public Residential Quarters, Malvagna (ME)

1986 Study for production plant, Milazzo (ME)

1985 Plan for Residential Building, Acicastello (CT)

1985 Plan of a Sport Complex, Letojanni (ME)

1984 Car dealer Show Room, Messina

1982 Currò House, Villafranca Tirrena (ME)


Paesaggio Urbano n. 3/2007

L'industria delle Costruzioni n. 394/2007

Area, n. 91/2007

A. Alessi (a cura di), Italy now. Country positions in architecture, Cornell AAP Publications, Ithaca/NY,  2006

Il Giornale dell'Architettura n. 44/2006

D. Bradbury, Mediterranean Modern, Thames & Hudson, Londra 2006

WA-World Architecture n. 183/2005

d’Architettura, n. 27/2005

Area, n. 83/2005

A. Piva, P. Galliani (a cura di), Architetti italiani under 50, Marsilio, Venezia 2005

Casabella, n. 710/2003

M. Falsitta (a cura di), Lonely living. L’architettura dello spazio primario, F. Motta Editore, Milano 2002

d’Architettura, n. 18/2002

F. Purini – L. Sacchi (a cura di), Dal Futurismo al futuro possibile nell’architettura italiana contemporanea, Edizioni Skira, Milano 2002

L. Molinari (a cura di), Nuova architettura italiana. Due generazioni a confronto, Motta Editore, Milano 2002

Piranesi, n. 15-16/2002

V. Melluso, Scritti e commenti, Edizioni del Laboratorio di Architettura, Messina 2002

G. Santi – G.Crespi (a cura di), Nuove chiese italiane (vol. II), Edizioni Electa, Milano 2000

V. Melluso, L’architettura come distanza, Edizioni Kappa, Roma 1999

V. Melluso, Architetture e composizione urbana, Edizioni C. S. Officina Architettura, Messina 1999

Werk/Bauen+Wohnen, n.10/1996

AA.VV., Sensori del futuro. L'architetto come sismografo, Edizioni Electa, Venezia 1996

A. Franchini (a cura di), Nuova architettura italiana, Edizione dei laboratori internazionali d'Architettura, Milano 1996

Parametro, n. 215/1996

G. Bosoni (a cura di), Architettura italiana contemporanea, Editrice Segesta, Milano 1994

Abitare, n. 320/1993

d’Architettura, n. 6/1992