Michelangelo Sabatino

The ritual of final reviews offers students and teachers opportunities to receive and exchange feedback from educators at different institutions across the country and globe. Successful reviews provide engaging debate and opportunities for discovery. My recent trip to Ithaca for studio and final thesis reviews offered this and more. Most of the reviews took place [...]

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 [...]

After two days spent debating, participants and attendees of Reconsidering Postmodernism still had many questions concerning the definition of postmodernism and its relevancy to contemporary architectural practice. Using the example of Italian architect Ernesto N. Rogers (1909-1969), I presented a paper at the conference in which I tried to demonstrate how even modernist (and not only postmodernist) architects were [...]