Simon Sadler

 

Appointed 2002, Program in Art History

Ph.D., Open University, UK, 2001
M.A., University of Central England, UK, 1993
B.A. (Hons), King’s College, University of London, UK, 1989

 

http://www.simonsadler.org

 

Recent Courses

AHI 25: Introduction to Architectural History

AHI 168: ‘Great Cities’: London, Paris, Vienna c. 1840-1900

AHI 184: Twentieth Century Architecture

AHI 187: Contemporary Architecture

AHI 250: Seminar in Avant-Garde Architecture

AHI 288: Seminar in European and American Architecture

 

Recent Publications

Books

Archigram: Architecture without Architecture, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005
Shortlisted for the 2008 Bruno Zevi Award presented by International Committee of Architectural Critics (CICA)

Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism, Oxford: Architectural Press, 2000 (co-editor, Jonathan Hughes)

The Situationist City, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998

 

Articles

'An Architecture of the Whole,' Journal of Architectural Education, vol. 61, no. 4, 2008, pp. 108-129

'Drop City Revisited', Journal of Architectural Education, vol. 58, 2006

'Portrait of the Architect as a Young Man', Art History, vol. 26, no. 4, September 2003

'Everyday People', Prototypo, vol. 4, no. 7, August 2002

'The Brutal Birth of Archigram', Twentieth Century Architecture no. 6, London: Twentieth Century Society, 2002

'The Invisible University', arq (Architectural Research Quarterly), vol. 6, no. 2, 2002

'Archigram and Technocracy', Universal versus Individual: the Architecture of the 1960s, Conference Proceedings 2002, Jyväskylä: Alvar Aalto Academy, 2002

 

Book Chapters and Catalog Essays

'One modernism? One history? One world? One Guedes?,' SAM 3: Pancho Guedes: An Alternative Modernist, Basle: Swiss Architecture Museum / Christoph Merian Verlag, 2007

'At Home with Robert Arneson,' You See: the early years of the UC Davis studio art faculty, Davis: Nelson Art Gallery, University of California, 2007

'Ross Birrell in conversation with Simon Sadler,' in Rhona Warwick, ed., Arcade: Artists and Place-making, London: Black Dog Publishing in association with The Artworks Program, Gorbals, 2006

Foreword to Adam Sharr, Heidegger's Hut, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2006

'Guerilla Architecture,' in Francesca Ferguson & Urban Drift, eds., Talking Cities: The Micropolitics of Urban Space, Basel: Birkhäuser, 2006, pp. 166-168, 2006

'New Babylon versus Plug-in City,' in Martin van Schaik and Otakar Máčel, eds., Exit Utopia -- Architectural Provocations 1956-76, Munich: Prestel, 2005

'British Architecture in the Sixties', in Chris Stephens and Katharine Stout, eds., Art & the 60s: This Was Tomorrow, London: Tate, 2004

'The Boundaries of the Avant-Garde', in Rosemary Wakeman, ed., Themes in Modern European History, vol. 4, 1945-Present, New York: Routledge, 2003

'An Avant-Garde Academy: the teaching of radicalism in European and North American architecture', in Andrew Ballantyne, ed., Architectures from Modern to Post-Modern, Oxford: Blackwell / Association of Art Historians, 2003

 

 

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