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Alec Melkonian

Alec Melkonian

Cambridge, MA, US

 
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About 

By engaging both creatively and intellectually with the aesthetic and functional aspects of cutting-edge design, innovation, and problem-solving, Joints and XRAYs become the starting point of pragmatic architecture and landscape designs. They prioritize attention to detail and value a high level of ecological sensibility and their execution on multiple scales, projects, systems, contexts, disciplines, and media. 


Elsewhere:

Employment 

Mossessian Architecture, London, GB, Project Designer

Mar 2024 - Aug 2024
 

NuVu x AGBU Innovation Studios, Pasadena, CA, US, Innovation Studio Lead Coach

AGBU Innovation Studios is a project-based learning atmosphere designed to bridge STEAM education with Armenian culture.

The Living Architecture studio encourages critical thinking, problem solving, and collaboration all in a supportive environment allowing middle school as well as high school students to engage with the current discourse as they explore their imaginations and sharpen their design and architectural skills.

Feb 2022 - Feb 2024
 

Morphosis Architects, Culver City, CA, US, Architectural Designer

Areas of focus:

Working with the design team to produce compelling architectural proposals demonstrated through drawings, renders, graphics, diagrams, maps, presentations, and animations.

Design Competitions in early phases, Concept design, 3D modeling and design iteration, GIS mapping, AI, Professional Renders and external coordination with clients and visualization firms.

Architectural Design, Urban Design, Landscape Design and Urbanism, Vertical Urbanism, Master planning and Asset ideation under both NYC and LA leadership.

Production of physical diorama models involving cutting edge model-building and fabrication for international competitions, as well as M Logo designs for Thom Mayne and his 50 year - Modeled Works [Archive] book.

Oct 2022 - Sep 2023
 
Sep 2020 - Apr 2022
 

Austrian Museum of Applied Arts - MAK, Vienna, AT, Exhibition Designer - Vienna Architecture Biennale for Change

Conducting Research table for Special Topics in Architecture and it's execution within exhibition under a.o.Prof Anton Falkeis at Museum of Applied Arts for the 2021 Vienna Biennale for Change.

Topic: Generation and Transformation of Urban Metabolisms

Mar 2021 - May 2021
 

Mossessian Architecture, London, GB, Design Assistant (Internship)

Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
 

Education 

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, US, Masters in Landscape Architecture (MLA I AP)

Sep 2024 - current
 

Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles, CA, US, BArch, Undergraduate Program

Sep 2017 - Apr 2022
 

Institute of Architecture at the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Vienna, AT, Exchange

Visiting student from SCI-Arc to the University of Applied Arts in Vienna - MArch 1

Studio Hani Rashid

Exchange term consists of a vertical studio for the Spring/Summer semester of 2021.

Feb 2021 - Jul 2021
 

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