Michelangelo Sabatino, PhD, Hon. FRAIC
Director of School of Architecture + Planning, School of Architecture + Planning
Roland K. Blumberg Endowed Professorship in Architecture
Bio
Michelangelo Sabatino trained as an architect, preservationist, and historian in Canada, Italy, and the United States. Dr. Sabatino is an educator, academic leader, and award-winning scholar. His research focuses primarily on modern architectures in Europe and the Americas. Between 2017–19 Dr. Sabatino served as interim dean for the College of Architecture of IIT and held the Rowe Family Endowed Dean Chair. He currently serves as Director of the UT San Antonio School of Architecture + Planning and is the Roland K. Blumberg Endowed Professor in Architecture. Sabatino lectures widely about modern and contemporary architecture, participates in juries, and has served on severaleditorial and not-for-profit organization boards in Europe and the Americas including the Journal of Architectural Education, Society of Architectural Historians, andDocomomo International / US.
Throughout his career Sabatino has focused new light on larger patterns of design discourse and production during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: his book Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy (2011) was translated into Italian and won critical acclaim and multiple awards, including the Society of Architectural Historians’ Alice Davis Hitchcock Award. His recent books include: Canada: Modern Architectures in History (2016), Avant-Garde in the Cornfields: Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony (2019), Making Houston Modern: The Life and Architecture of Howard Barnstone (2020), Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929–1975 (2020), Carlo Mollino: Architect and Storyteller (2021), and Mies in His Own Words. Complete Writings, Speeches and Interviews (2024) and The Edith Farnsworth House. Architecture, Preservation, Culture (2024), The Global Turn: Six Journeys of Architecture and the City, 1945-1989 (2025).
