Michelangelo Sabatino

A two-week lecturing engagement brought me to Brazil for the first time with stops (in the following order) in Rio de Janeiro, Porto Alegre, Belo Horizonte, Ouro Preto, Brasilia and São Paulo. With such a big country and so little time I faced difficult decisions about what to visit and what to leave for my next [...]

Our UH study abroad program on the European Metropolis took us to Rome and Vienna with brief stops in smaller yet equally interesting cities such as Graz, Venice and Verona. Twentieth-Century highlights of our Italy tour include a visit to Pier Luigi Nervi’s Paul VI Audience Hall (1971), the Mausoleum of the Fosse Ardeatine (G. [...]

An international conference held in Porto entitled Surveys on Vernacular Architecture (organized by the ESAP) brought scholars from all over to discuss shared research interests. I spoke on Italian modernism and the efforts made by architects from the 1910s to the 1970s to publish surveys aimed at increasing knowledge about extant vernacular architecture so as [...]

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 [...]

I write from the airport on my return trip to the US after a brief visit to Spain that took me to Bilbao, Madrid, and Segovia. After landing in Madrid, I started with a visit to Antón Garcia-Abril’s (Ensamble Studio) Hemeroscopium House completed in 2005: a combination of studied clumsiness and soulful monumentality, the Hemeroscopium [...]