Alessandro Melis was born on 6 July 1969 in Cagliari, the largest city in the island of Sardinia in Italy.
The SR1938 Institute of the University of Pisa,[2][3] the Stella Maris Hospital [4][5] and the Auditorium of Sant’Anna, inaugurated by the president of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella,[6] are acknowledged both in scholar publications and in popular magazines as examples of excellence in sustainable design.
Alessandro Melis is leading the project on behalf of the University of Portsmouth, where he is professor of architecture innovation.
[13] He has also been invited as a keynote speaker at the China Academy of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the University of Cambridge,[14] TEDx,[15] the Italian Institute of Culture in London, the NZ Cycling Conference, the Foster Foundation (as an academic staff member),[16] and the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris.
[18][19][20][21][22] His work was the object of several exhibitions and of a recent monograph (Rome, 2020) authored by several scholars of the universities of Palermo and Bari and edited by Francesco Fallacara Chirico, titled “Alessandro Melis, Utopic Real World.