Simon Sadler
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Simon Sadler is Professor of Architectural and Urban History in the Art History Program at the University of California, Davis
. Formerly a Lecturer in Architectural History at the University of Nottingham
. His publications study the architectural ideas of the Archigram
group, the Situationists, and other experimental practices since 1945.
University of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis is a public teaching and research university established in 1905 and located in Davis, California, USA. Spanning over , the campus is the largest within the University of California system and third largest by enrollment...
. Formerly a Lecturer in Architectural History at the University of Nottingham
University of Nottingham
The University of Nottingham is a public research university based in Nottingham, United Kingdom, with further campuses in Ningbo, China and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia...
. His publications study the architectural ideas of the Archigram
Archigram
Archigram was an avant-garde architectural group formed in the 1960s - based at the Architectural Association, London - that was futurist, anti-heroic and pro-consumerist, drawing inspiration from technology in order to create a new reality that was solely expressed through hypothetical projects...
group, the Situationists, and other experimental practices since 1945.
Publications
- Archigram: Architecture without Architecture, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2005 http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10462
- (edited with Jonathan Hughes), Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism, Oxford: Architectural Press, 2000 http://books.elsevier.com/us/architecturalpress/us/subindex.asp?isbn=9780750640831&country=United+States&community=architecturalpress&ref=&mscssid=CB3HCMKLQC4A9LV0FT9QUHA1C1WS3RL1
- The Situationist City, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998 http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=3839
- Shortlisted for the 2008 Bruno Zevi Award presented by International Committee of Architectural Critics (CICA)
- "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
External links
- Art History Program, UC Davis http://arthistory.ucdavis.edu
- Personal website http://www.simonsadler.org/