michelangelo sabatino

BOOKS

Avermaete, T. and M. Sabatino, The Global Turn: Six Journeys of Modern Architecture and the City, 1945—1989 (Rotterdam: Nai 010 Publishers, 2025)

Behar, R. and Rosario Marquardt eds., The Home We Share. Three Social Sculptures for Princeton University by R&R (Zurich: Park Books, 2025)

Sabatino, M., Harrington K., eds., Building, Breaking, Rebuilding: The IlT Campus and Chicago’s South Side (Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press, 2025)

Sabatino, M., The Edith Farnsworth House. Architecture, Preservation, Culture (New York: The Monacelli Press, 2024)

Pizzigoni, V. and M. Sabatino, Mies in His Own Words: Complete Writings, Speeches, and Interviews 1922-1969 (Berlin: DOM publishers, 2024)

Windsor Liscombe, R. and M. Sabatino, Arthur Erickson: The Making of a Modern Architect (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025) ( partially funded with grant by Graham Foundation)

Ambrose, S., and M. Sabatino, Modern, Again The Benda House and Garden in Chicagoland (Novata (CA): ORO Editions, 2025).

Ferrari, N. and M. Sabatino, Carlo Mollino: Architect and Storyteller (Zurich: Park Books, 2021)

“The Pavilions at Glenstone: Art, Architecture, and Landscape,” in Glenstone The Pavilions (Emily Wei Rales ed., with Paul Goldberger, Susana Ventura, Iwan Baan) (Glenstone Foundation, 2021)

“G. E. Kidder Smith’s Reputational Shadow,” in Angelo Maggi, G. E. Kidder Smith Builds: The Travel of Architectural Photography (Novata (CA): ORO Editions, 2022)

Benjamin, S. and M. Sabatino, Modern in the Middle: Chicago Houses 1929-1975 (New York: The Monacelli Press, 2020)

Fox, S., Scardino B., and M. Sabatino, Making Houston Modern: The Life and Architecture of Howard Barnstone (Austin: The University Texas Press, 2020)

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Nicholson, B., and M. Sabatino, eds., Avant-Garde in the Cornfields: Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2019) ISLPMC Allen G. Noble Book Award for best edited publication (International Society for Landscape, Place, & Material Culture)

Dähnick, A., Lohan, D., and Sabatino, M., Architectural Portraits: The MIES Project by Arina Dähnick (Berlin: Edition Cantz, 2019) (Shortlist German Photo Book Award 2019/2020)

Windsor Liscombe, R., and M. Sabatino, Canada – Modern Architectures in History  (London: Reaktion Books, 2016) (CICA, Shortlist, Bruno Zevi Book Award)

Sabatino, M., Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy (Toronto – Buffalo: The University of Toronto Press, 2010) (foreword by Kurt W. Forster) (SAH, Alice Davis Hitchcock Book Award; SESAH, Best Book Award; MLA, Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for Italian Studies; AAIS, Best Book Award)

Sabatino, M., Orgoglio della modestia: Architettura moderna italiana e tradizione vernacolare (Milan: Edizioni Franco Angeli, 2013)

Fraser, L. and M. Sabatino eds. Arthur Erickson: Layered Landscapes - Drawings from the Canadian Architectural Archives (Halifax: Dalhousie Architectural Press, 2013) (second edition 2016)

Lejeune, J-F., and M. Sabatino, eds., Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities (London: Routledge, 2010) (Italian translation: Nord/Sud: L’architettura moderna e il mediterraneo  (Trento: LIST Lab Laboratorio ACTAR, 2016)

Armani G., Ballerini L., Sabatino M., Foro Italico – Photographs by George Mott (New York: PowerHouse Books, 2003)

Biraghi, M., and M. Sabatino, eds., Ezio Bonfanti - Nuovo e moderno in architettura (Milan: Bruno Mondadori, 2001)

ESSAYS

“Le Corbusier and Chicago,” Eric Mumford ed., Le Corbusier (Chicago: Wrightwood 659, 2021)

“Architecture, History, and Technology-IIT CoA PhD Program in Architecture,” in Federica Goffi ed., InterVIEWS: Insights and Introspection on Doctoral Research in Architecture (London: Routledge, 2019)

“Canada and the United States since 1914,” (with Rhodri Windsor-Liscombe) in Murray Fraser ed., Banister Fletcher, Global History of Architecture 21st edition (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019), pp. 1295-1351.

“Guardare l'Italia da fuori: Il caso America” in Comunità Italia – Architettura, Città, Paesaggio 1945-2000, eds. Marco Biraghi and Alberto Ferlenga (Milan: Silvana Editoriale, 2015), 92-95. 

“Capri: futurismo e razionalismo tra primitivismo e mediterraneità,” 1914-2014. Cent’anni di architettura futurista, ed. Andrea Nastri and Giuliana Vespere (Napoli: CLEAN, 2015)

“Capri as Epicentre of “Slow” Futurism,” in Italian Futurism 1909-1944: Reconstructing the Universe, Exhibition Catalogue, Guggenheim Museum (New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, 2014)

“Sanctioning Modernism and Tradition: Italian Architecture, the Vernacular, and the State,” in Vladimir Kulić, Timothy Parker, Monica Penick, eds., Sanctioning Modernism: Architecture and the Making of Postwar Identities (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2014)

Andrew Peckham and Torsten Schmiedeknecht eds., The Rationalist Reader: Architecture and Rationalism in Western Europe 1920-1940 / 1960-1990 (London: Routledge, 2013)

“Toward a Regionalist Modernism: Italian Architecture and the Vernacular” in Leen Meganck, Linda Van Santvoort, Jan De Maeyer, eds., Regionalism and Modernity in Western Europe, 1919-1940 (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2013)

ARTICLES

“West Coast Modern House Series,” in Canadian Architect (April 27, 2018): 35-36.

“To be, or not to be, Docomomo, that is no longer the question” (Docomomo US website; available online, February 22, 2018)

“Eric Ross Arthur: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition,” Journal of the Society for the Study of Architecture in Canada Vol. 42, no. 2 (Fall 2017): 9-12.

“Heat and light thematised in the modern architecture of Houston,” republished in 20th Anniversary Anthology, The Journal of Architecture (21:4; June 2016), 500-523.

“Howard Barnstone: Mid-Twentieth Century Architecture in Houston and the Crises of American Liberalism,” (with Stephen Fox), ARRIS - Journal of the Southeast Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 25. (Spring 2014): 48-63.

“Arthur Erickson Architect: Money, Media and Canadian Architecture,” Perspecta 47(eds. James Andrachuk, Christos Christovalantis Bolos, Avi Forman, Marcus Addison Hooks) (Fall 2014): 68-76.

 “North versus South: The Mediterranean and the Histories of Modern Architecture,” in New Geographies, Vol. 5 (Spring 2013), 273-284. Theme issue edited by Antonio Petrov. (Harvard GSD – Harvard University Press)

FOREWORDS

Paolo Nicoloso, Mussolini, Architect: Propaganda and Urban Landscape in Fascist Italy (University of Toronto Press, 2022)

Geoffrey Erickson, Eppich House II – The Story of an Arthur Erickson Masterwork (Vancouver: Figure 1, 2019) 

Leonard Bachman, Constructing the Architect (London: Routledge, 2018)