Michelangelo Sabatino
Professor, Director of Ph.D. Program in Architecture, Inaugural John Vinci Distinguished Research Fellow
Michelangelo Sabatino is a Canadian-American architect, architectural historian, educator, curator, and preservationist based in San Antonio, Texas. He is the Roland K. Blumberg Endowed Professor and director of the School of Architecture + Planning in the Klesse College of Engineering and Integrated Design at the University of Texas at San Antonio. He previously served as professor of Architectural History and Preservation in the College of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT).
Sabatino writes about both well-known and lesser known twentieth-century architects and modern buildings, and how cultural and social forces affect the built environment.
Early life and education
Sabatino was raised in Toronto and Mississauga, Ontario, by Italian immigrant parents. He earned a professional degree in architecture from IUAV University of Venice, completed a doctorate in Fine Art at the University of Toronto, and held a postdoctoral fellowship in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.
Academic career
Sabatino has also taught at the Yale School of Architecture and was a faculty member at the University of Houston’s Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture and Design.
From 2017 to 2020, he served as interim dean of the IIT College of Architecture, holding the Rowe Family Endowed Dean Chair. He has founded and led several initiatives at IIT, including a gallery, a Ph.D. symposium, a holiday gospel concert, and the journal Prometheus: Journal of the PhD Program in Architecture.
Sabatino has received fellowships from institutions including the MacDowell Colony, and was named Lila Wallace Reader’s Digest Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti through the Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2023–24) and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada in 2025.
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