Michelangelo Sabatino

Visiting twentieth-century buildings and neighborhoods in Rome challenges one to think about the impact of modern and contemporary architecture on a historic city. I went to Rome to deliver a three-day seminar for graduate students enrolled in the European Masters of History of Architecture offered by the Università degli studi Roma Tre. On the last [...]

After attending the 100th ACSA Anniversary Meeting held in Boston, I traveled to New York to give a lecture at the Institute of Fine Arts (NYU). I delivered my lecture -Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy – in a lofty salon of the James B. Duke House. A lively mix [...]

An invitation to lecture at the Hammons School of Architecture at Drury University brought me to Springfield, Mo. With no nuclear power plant to speak of, I concluded early on (with some disappointment) that this is not the home of Homer Simpson. Drury University is a small liberal arts university and architecture is its only professional [...]

I traveled to the Netherlands to attend a business meeting for the European Architectural History Network (EAHN). As a member of the editorial board of the soon-to-be launched EAHN Journal, I was excited to attend the working meeting and reacquaint myself with modern and contemporary architecture in the Netherlands. Although the two-day meeting was held [...]

I recently travelled to Pennsylvania to lecture at UPenn and at the Stuckeman School of Architecture at Penn State. Outside Looking In is the State College spring lecture series focusing on outsiders and insiders from different points of view. It is an appropriate theme considering my topic: Arthur Erickson. His career trajectory led him from insider [...]