The 2026 Rev. Anthony J. Lauck, C.S.C., Award: Melissa DelVecchio '93
For her enduring contributions to architecture and to places of learning and community at Notre Dame and beyond Melissa DelVecchio ’93 was honored with the 2026 Rev. Anthony J. Lauck Award.
As a Partner at RAMSA (Robert A.M. Stern Architects), DelVecchio 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.
On the Notre Dame campus, DelVecchio led the design of the new Raclin Murphy Museum of Art, the Stayer Center for Executive Education for the Mendoza College of Business, and the redesign of the campus’ Main Circle. Other notable projects include the Pauli Murray and Benjamin Franklin Residential Colleges and Schwarzman Center at Yale University; Schwarzman College (the first LEED Gold-certified academic building in China); Wasserstein Hall at the Harvard Law School; and a forthcoming modernization of the historic Huntington Library in San Marino, California.
DelVechio has served as a Visiting Professor of Classical Architecture at Yale School of Architecture and Visiting Critic in Classical Architecture and Urbanism at the Catholic University of America. She 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.
“My experience at Notre Dame, as a member of the first class to pursue the Classical Architecture program, became the foundation of my work and career. At the time, I never imagined that I would one day have the opportunity to help shape the campus and its buildings through design. I am deeply honored to be recognized with this award.”