Mediterranean Modern: Art & Architecture Between Classical and Vernacular Traditions

Join us for an evening with Michelangelo Sabatino, PhD, Hon. FRAIC, as he explores the influences of classical and vernacular traditions on the Modern art and architecture of Mediterranean countries during the 20th century. Introduction by Matthew McLendon, PhD, Director and CEO McNay Art Museum with a Q&A to follow with architect Mac White of Michael G. Imber Architects and landscape architect Anna Hoffman of Hoffman Ospina Landscape Architects.

\Michelangelo Sabatino PhD, Hon. FRAIC. is a publicly engaged architectural historian, curator, and preservationist whose research and writing focuses primarily on both lesser-known and canonical episodes of modern architecture and design. He is currently the Director of the School of Architecture + Planning of The University of Texas at San Antonio and Roland K. Blumberg Endowed Professor in Architecture. Dr. Sabatino was elected Honorary Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada. Sabatino’s first book, Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy (2011), won multiple awards, including the Chicago-based Society of Architectural Historians’ Alice Davis Hitchcock Award. Sabatino lectures widely about modern and contemporary architecture and design, participates in juries, and has served on a number of editorial and not-for-profit organization boards in Europe and the Americas ranging from the Society of Architectural Historians to Docomomo International / US.

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