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Architecture & Design NOW presents Michelangelo Sabatino
Arthur C. Erickson: The Image of the Modern Architect in Canada
6 pm MT | October 3, 2022
uLethbridge Online Presentation
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This talk is rescheduled for October 3 due to the Sept. 19 federal holiday being observed. Thank you.
Michelangelo Sabatino trained as an architect, preservationist, and historian in Canada, Italy, and the US. He is Professor of Architectural History and Cultural Heritage at IIT’s College of Architecture where he directs the PhD program and is the inaugural John Vinci Distinguished Research Fellow.This past year, he was selected as one of the Top Design CHICAGO Influencers in Newcity’s Design 50. Sabatino’s first book, Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy (2011), won multiple awards, including the Society of Architectural Historians’ Alice Davis Hitchcock Award.Since arriving in Chicago in 2014, Sabatino co-authored Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929–1975, that recently won the “Modernism in America Award” from Docomomo US. More recent books include Canada: Modern Architectures in History, Avant-Garde in the Cornfields: Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony, Making Houston Modern: The Life and Architecture of Howard Barnstone, and most recently Carlo Mollino: Architect and Storyteller (with Napoleone Ferrari, 2021).
Michelangelo Sabatino's website
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts. Nous remercions le Conseil des arts du Canada de son soutien.
Daniel Heaton’s presentation is the first in a series in this fall’s Architecture & Design NOW, dedicated to architect Arthur Erickson and the University of Lethbridge, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the official opening of University Hall and the westside campus, which took place on September 23, 1972. Heaton’s talk is followed on October 3 by a presentation by Michelangelo Sabatino, Professor of Architectural History and Cultural Heritage in the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. The series marking this occasion concludes on Nov. 14 with a presentation by architectural historian, Rhodri Windsor Liscombe, Professor Emeritus, University of British Columbia and co-author with Sabatino of a forthcoming book on Erickson.
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