Authors in Architecture: Michelangelo Sabatino

Arthur Erickson: Layered Landscapes

This event is co-hosted by AIA Houston, Architecture Center Houston, Houston Public Library and Houston Mod.
Download To Calendar
May 8, 2014
5:30 PM
Architecture Center Houston
315 Capitol, Suite 120
Houston, TE 77002
mat@aiahouston.org
7135200155

This book was produced in conjunction with the exhibition Arthur Erickson: Layered Landscapes which examines selected drawings of Arthur Erickson from the Canadian Architectural Archives collection. The book contains drawings from 14 projects, with a Foreword by Kenneth Frampton and essays by Michelangelo Sabatino and Linda Fraser + Geoffrey Simmins.


More About Arthur Erickson:
(quoted from arthurerickson.com)

Arthur Charles Erickson was a passionate advocate of cultural awareness, and a fervent explorer of human and natural environments. His buildings, though remarkably diverse, share deep respect for the context, incomparable freshness and grace, and the dramatic use of space and light. He has brought to his work an understanding of the community of man that, when filtered through his insightful mind and fertile imagination, gives birth to a singular architecture that is in dialogue with the world. 

As both architect and professor, Erickson has contributed much to the architectural community. His works include The Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, the Provincial Law Courts in Vancouver, the San Diego Convention Center, Napp Laboratories in Cambridge, England, the Canadian Embassy in Washington, D.C., California Plaza in Los Angeles, and most recently the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington.

More about the author:
Michelangelo Sabatino (Ph.D.) is Associate Professor and Coordinator of the History, Theory, and Criticism Program at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, University of Houston. He is a critic, designer, teacher and historian. His research and teaching explore the intellectual history and material cultures of modern and contemporary architecture, design, landscape, and urbanism.  Sabatino serves on a number of editorial boards, has participated in juries, and lectures regularly at universities in the Americas and Europe.

His award-winning books include Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy (2010) and, with Jean-François Lejeune, Modern Architecture and the Mediterranean: Vernacular Dialogues and Contested Identities (2010). In addition to the catalogue he co-edited with Linda Fraser on Arthur Erickson : Layered Landscapes – Drawings from the Canadian Architectural Archives (2013) his new book Arthur Erickson: Architecture into Landscape is forthcoming in 2014 from Princeton Architectural Press and McGill-Queens University Press. His Forms of Spirituality: Modern Architecture, Landscape, and Preservation in New Harmony (co-edited by Ben Nicholson) is forthcoming with the University of Chicago Press.