MELANIE FESSEL

PRINCIPAL TERREFORMX

Melanie is Principal of TerreformX Europe. She is an architect and urban designer with over a decade of professional experience. Currently, Melanie is a Lecturer, Academic Coordinator, and Doctoral Researcher at the ETH Zurich, Department of Architecture. Her academic teaching experience includes; ETH, Lawrence Tech University, NYU, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Syracuse University. Previously, she was Head of Design Development for Alice Aycock Ltd., Founding Member at ONE LAB, and Managing Editor of Ecogram. Melanie is a former Associate Fellow with the Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design. She won numerous awards; LafargeHolcim Award for North America, AIA New York Urban Design Merit Award, and the Victor Papanek Social Design Award. She is the co-author of “Ecotarium: Unlimited Lifecycle Design”. Her work has been published in; “Design with Life: Biotech Architecture and Resilient Cities” (ACTAR), “XXL-XS New Directions in Ecological Design” (ACTAR), and “Architecture of Nature: Nature of Architecture” (Applied Research & Design). Additionally, her work has been exhibited at White Box Gallery in New York, DOX Center for Contemporary Art in Prague, MASS MoCA in North Adams, The Building Centre in London, DAZ in Berlin, OCAD in Toronto, NAI in Rotterdam, and the Venice Biennale. Melanie earned: M.Arch The Cooper Union, Dipl.- Ing. Technical University of Berlin, Germany, and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain.

URL: TerreformX
E-mail: fessel@terreform.org