michelangelo sabatino

Art + Architecture + Design History + Curating + Preservation

Interviews, Exhibitions, and Symposia

2024 NEW WEBSITE: Exhibition, short film, and book: A Living Room for Bronzeville: Stories about the Illinois Institute of Technology and Chicago’s South Side (Driehaus Foundation Award) Recording April 25th Book Preview

EXHIBITION REVIEW by Zach Mortice in The Architect’s Newspaper, June 12, 2024

2023 Exhibition: Outside the Box: Modern and Contemporary Houses in Riverside, Riverside Arts Center

2023 S. R. Crown Hall Mecca Flats fragments at the Art Institute of Chicago

2023 Maurice Cox in Conversation (co-organized with Maria Villalobos Hernandez)

2022 G. E. Kidder Smith Photographer, Building Books (IIT), At Home in America (The Edith Farnsowrth House), Discovering Italy (Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago)

2020 Interview, Canada Constructed Interview series, University of Toronto Faculty of Arts & Science, Department of Art History

2019 Executive Director of Farnsworth House in conversation with Michelangelo Sabatino about Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses, 1929-1975

2018 CBS Chicago Interview: Dry Riverside Water Tower Provides Community Pride

2017 Exhibition, “Open Air Rooms – Cherubino Gambardella,” Chicago Architectural Biennial, Italian Institute of Culture

2017 Crossing Paths: The MTCC Competition, 20 Years Hence (Graham Resource Center) (with Kim Soss)  (+ “Mies and the City” Roundtable curated by Alla Vronskaya)

2nd International Graduate Student Symposium, Chicago Schools: Authors, Audiences and History, November 17-18, 2017

Picturing Riverside: An Exhibition of a Landmark Landscape Community (Riverside Train station, 2016), curated by Michelangelo Sabatino with PhD Students and Constance Guardi (Riverside Historical Commission Chairperson).

1st International Graduate Student Symposium, Petroleum Modernism: Architecture and Identity in the Gulf, October 13, 2016

A View From Above: The Transformation of IIT’s Main Campus (curated by Michelangelo Sabatino with PhD Students).


Design and Preservation

Founding Commissioning Editor, Canadian Modern, Dalhousie Architectural Press

MOVING HISTORY FORWARD Preservation Project of a modernist house (1938) and landscape by Chicago architect Winston Elting in Riverside, Illinois. Visit DOCOMOMO for more details.

Design Competition: Sukkahville 2012 (Toronto, Canada), Design Build Award for SUKKANOE, Finalist; Permanent display: Canadian Canoe Museum (Peterborough, Canada)

PhD Program in Architecture

Annual journal and symposium launched and can be downloaded. Prometheus:: Journal of the PhD Program in Architecture

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