The Edith Farnsworth house

The Three Lives of the Edith Farnsworth House in Chicago: Architecture, Preservation, and Stewardship

Conferenza di Michelangelo Sabatino IIT, Chicago

Saluti Giuseppe D'Acunto
Intervengono Elisa Bizzotto, Angelo Maggi e Marko Pogacnik

Evento in lingua inglese

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Join us as Chicago-based architectural historian and preservationist Professor Michelangelo Sabatino (IIT College of Architecture) discusses his new book about the famous Edith Farnsworth House in conversation with Professors Elisa Bizzotto (Università Iuav di Venezia) Marco Pogacnik (Università Iuav di Venezia) and Angelo Maggi (Università Iuav di Venezia).
Sabatino's new book reveals the three different “lives” of the iconic modern house in Chicago beginning with its pioneering client/patron Dr. Edith Farnsworth and famed German architect Mies van der Rohe, followed by two additional “lives” centered upon the period of ownership by Lord Peter and Hayat Palumbo, concluding with its current stewardship by the National Trust for Historic Preservation/Landmarks Illinois.

Michelangelo Sabatino is a publicly engaged educator, historian, curator, and preservationist whose research and writing focuses primarily on the built environment of the twentieth century. In addition to having served as the Interim Dean (2017-19) he currently directs the PhD Program in Architecture and is the Inaugural John Vinci Distinguished Research Fellow.
Sabatino trained in art, architectural and design history, and preservation at universities in Canada, Italy, and the United States of America. He earned a professional degree in Architecture at the Università IUAV di Venezia and a PhD in the Department of Fine Art, University of Toronto. He held a post-doctoral fellowship in the Department of History of Art + Architecture, Harvard University. Sabatino taught at Yale University and the University of Houston before his appointment to IIT's College of Architecture. Sabatino's research has been supported by a range of funding agencies and institutions such as SSHRC, Canadian Centre for Architecture and the Graham Foundation.
Sabatino's first book, Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy (2011), won multiple awards, including the Society of Architectural Historians' Alice Davis Hitchcock Award. He recently completed two books related to IIT: The Edith Farnsworth House: Architecture, Preservation, Culture (2024) and Mies in His Own Words: Complete Writings, Speeches, Interviews (2024).