Michelangelo Sabatino, PhD

Roland K. Blumberg Endowed Professorship in Architecture

Director and Professor, School of Architecture + Planning

Michelangelo Sabatino was named the new director of the School of Architecture + Planning in the Bill and Margie Klesse School of Engineering and Integrated Design in fall 2025.

He takes over the department after 11 years at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, where he was a professor of architecture, director of the doctoral program, and the recipient of the inaugural John Vinci Distinguished Research Fellowship. In June 2025, he was named an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.

Sabatino is the author of several award-winning books about the built environment of the Americas and Europe. His research has been supported by numerous national and international foundations and centers.

Sabatino trained in architecture and preservation at the Università Iuav di Venezia, Italy, before earning his PhD in Art and Architectural History at the University of Toronto in Canada. Following his postdoctoral fellowship at Harvard University, Sabatino taught at Yale University and the University of Houston before moving to Chicago.