Lecture: Transformation: the Vernacular In Modern and Contemporary Architecture.
Michelangelo Sabatino (Ph.D.) was trained as an architect and architectural historian in Venice and Toronto. He is currently Associate Professor at the Gerald D.Hines College of Architecture of the University of Houston. His essays on 19th and 20th century European and North American architecture, urbanism, and design have appeared in journals such as “Casabella”, “Cite”, “Harvard Design Magazine”, “Journal of Architecture”, “Journal of Architecture Education”, “Journal of the society for the Study of Architecture in Canada”, “Journal of the Society or Architectural Historians”, “Perspecta” and “Rotunda”. Along with his recently co-edited book Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities (2009) his new book is entitled Pride in Modestry: Modernist architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy (2010). Sabatino has received fellowships and grants from the Canada Council, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts, Georgia O´Keefe Research Museum, Houston Architecture Foundation, Japan Foundation, Wolfsonian-FIU and SSHRC (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada). He has been appointed Visiting Scholar for 2010-2011 at the Canadian Centre for Architecture to complete his manuscript on Arthur C.Erickson.
