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Michelangelo Sabatino, PhD is a Chicago-based educator, historian and preservationist whose research explores the rise, dissemination, and revision of modern architecture, design, landscape architecture and urbanism. Sabatino is currently Professor and Director of the PhD Program at Illinois Institute of Technology’s College of Architecture located on the Ludwig Mies van der Rohe-designed landmarked modern campus. Between 2017–19 Sabatino served as Interim Dean and held the Rowe Family Endowed Dean Chair. Since 2017 he is the inaugural John Vinci Distinguished Research Fellow.

Sabatino was born in Toronto, Canada. After completing high school he moved to Italy to pursue his professional architectural degree at the Università IUAV di Venezia. Upon completion he returned to Canada to pursue a doctorate in art and architectural history in the Department of Art History, University of Toronto followed by an appointment as post-doctoral research associate in Harvard University’s Department of History of Art and Architecture. Sabatino taught briefly at Yale University’s School of Architecture and served on the faculty of the University of Houston’s Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design for eight years before moving to IIT and Chicago.

Publications (Books)
Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy (2011); translated into Italian and winner of and multiple awards, including the Society of Architectural Historians’Alice Davis Hitchcock Award.

Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities (with Jean-François Lejeune, 2010); Italian translation NORD/SUD L’architettura moderna e il mediterraneo (2016); in 2011 the book received a commendation from the CICA International Committee of Architectural Critics (International Union Architects)

Canada: Modern Architectures in History (with Rhodri Windsor Liscombe, 2016); in 2017 the book was shortlisted for the Bruno Zevi Book Award / CICA International Committee of Architectural Critics (International Union Architects)

Avant-Garde in the Cornfields: Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony (with Ben Nicholson, 2019). In 2020 AIC received the Allen G. Noble Book Award for best edited publication from the International Society for Landscape, Place, & Material Culture.

Architectural Portraits: The MIES Project (with Dirk Lohan and Arina Dähnick 2019); Shortlisted in 2019/20 for the German Photo Book Award / Deutscher Fotobuchpreis.

Making Houston Modern: The Life and Architecture of Howard Barnstone (with Barrie Scardino Bradley and Stephen Fox, 2020)

Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929–1975 (with Susan Benjamin, 2020)

Carlo Mollino: Architect and Storyteller (with Napoleone Ferrari, 2021)

The Global Turn: Six Journeys of Modern Architecture and the City, 1945-1989 (with Tom Avermate, 2021)

Awards

 * Alice Davis Hitchcock Award, Society of Architectural Historians
 * Architectural Research Centers Consortium New Researcher Award
 * Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Visiting Scholars Program
 * Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
 * Douglas Haskell Award for Student Journals (AIA NYC Center for Architecture)
 * The MacDowell Colony Wilder Green Fellow
 * Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Research Center Fellowship