Simon Sadler (b. 1968, UK) is a professor in the Department of Design and in the Art History Program at the
University of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Davis, California, United States. It is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University ...
. His publications focus on histories, theories and ideologies of architecture, design and urbanism since the mid-twentieth century, and include studies of the
Archigram
Archigram was an avant-garde British architectural group whose unbuilt projects and media-savvy provocations "spawned the most influential architectural movement of the 1960's," according to Princeton Architectural Press study ''Archigram'' (19 ...
group, the
Situationists
The Situationist International (SI) was an Proletarian internationalism, international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and Political philosophy, political theorists. It was prominent in Eu ...
, and
counterculture
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.
He keynoted at the Design History Society (2017), the “Alteration” symposium at the Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2011), the Architectural Humanities Research Association (2011), and the 1st International Conference on Structures and Architecture, Guimarães (2010), and was the discussant with
Michael Pollan at the Berkeley Art Museum (2017). He was an Andrew W. Mellon Researcher at the
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal (2014-16) and a Fellow of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London (2002).
Publications
* ''Archigram: Architecture without Architecture'', Cambridge, Massachusetts:
MIT Press
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, 200
*''Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism'', Oxford: Architectural Press, 2000 (edited with Jonathan Hughes
* ''The Situationist City'', Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 199
*“That Sea Ranch Feeling,” in Jennifer Dunlop Fletcher and Joseph Becker, eds., ''The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism'', San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art / DelMonico / Prestel, 2018, pp. 66-88
*“The Bateson Building, Sacramento, California, 1977–81, and the Design of a New Age State,” ''Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians'' vol. 75, no. 4 (December 2016), pp. 469–48
*“Tools of Oneness,” in Justin McGuirk, Brendan McGetrick, eds., ''California Designing Freedom'', London: Design Museum /
Phaidon Press
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, 2017, pp. 156-16
*“Mandalas or Raised Fists? Hippie Holism, Panther Totality, and Another Modernism,” in Andrew Blauvelt, ed., ''Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia'', Minneapolis:
Walker Art Center
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, 2015, pp. 114-12
*“Archigram’s Los Angeles: Sentimentality for the Future,” in Sylvia Lavin with Kimberli Meyer, eds., ''Everything Loose Will Land: 1970s Art and Architecture in Los Angeles'', Los Angeles: MAK Center and Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, 2013, pp. 56-6
*“The Dome and the Shack: The Dialectics of Hippie Enlightenment,” in Iain Boal, Janferie Stone, Michael Watts, Cal Winslow, eds., ''West of Eden: Communes and Utopia in Northern California'', Oakland: PM Press / Retort, 201
*“Diagrams of Countercultural Architecture,” ''Design and Culture'', vol. 4, no. 3, November 2012, pp. 345-36
*“A Culture of Connection,” ''Boom: A Journal of California'', vol. 2, no. 1, 2012, pp. 1–1
*“British Architecture in the Sixties,” in Chris Stephens and Katharine Stout, eds., ''Art & the 60s: This Was Tomorrow'', London: Tate, 2004, pp. 116-13
* "An Architecture of the Whole," ''Journal of Architectural Education'', vol. 61, no. 4, 2008, pp. 108–12
* "Drop City Revisited," ''Journal of Architectural Education'', vol. 58, 200
External links
* Department of Design, UC Davi
*Art History Program, UC Davi
*Academia.ed
* Personal websit
*MIT Pres
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1968 births
Living people
English architectural historians
Academics of the University of Nottingham