Robert Mellin is a registered member of the Newfoundland and Labrador Association of Architects and a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. In recognition of his architectural design and heritage conservation work, he was elected to membership in the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts in 2002. He is Past Chair of the board of directors of the Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador. His book on the architecture of Tilting, Fogo Island, (Tilting: House Launching, Slide Hauling, Potato Trenching, and Other Tales from a Newfoundland Fishing Village), published by Princeton Architectural Press in New York, won the Winterset Literary Award in 2003 and was reprinted in paperback in 2006. Robert Mellin has received a Manning Award and eight Southcott Awards (Newfoundland Historic Trust) for his heritage conservation work in Newfoundland. He received the 2006 Paul E. Buchanan Award for excellence in fieldwork and interpretation from the Vernacular Architecture Forum. McGill Queen's University Press will publish his new book, Newfoundland Modern: Architecture in the Smallwood Years, 1949-1972 in the fall of 2011. Other publications by Robert Mellin: A City of Towns: Alternatives for the Planning and Design of Housing in St. John's, Newfoundland (CMHC Canadian Housing Information Centre, 1995: Ca1 MH 95C37), Residential Heritage Conservation in St. John's (Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador, 2005, 118 pages, in colour), Exterior Cladding (Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador, 2006).
