Michelangelo Sabatino
Council Designated Expert
Company
Illinois Institute of Technology
Professor + Director PhD Program (Inaugural John Vinci Distinguished Research Fellow)
Location
Chicago, United States
About
Michelangelo Sabatino is a publicly engaged architectural historian, curator, and preservationist whose research and writing focuses primarily on modern architecture and the built environment. He is Professor of Architectural History and Heritage at IIT’s College of Architecture where he directs the PhD program and is the inaugural John Vinci Distinguished Research Fellow. Since arriving in Chicago in 2014, Sabatino co-authored Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929–1975 which recently won the “Modernism in America Award” from Docomomo US. He is currently editing a new book Building, Breaking, Rebuilding. The Illinois Institute of Technology’s Campus and Chicago’s South Side. The book is the basis of short films and a new exhibition. He has recently completed two books related to IIT: The Edith Farnsworth House: Architecture, Preservation, Culture (2024) and Mies in His Own Words: Complete Writings, Speeches, Interviews (2024) Sabatino’s first book, Pride in Modesty: Modernist Arc
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