Simon Sadler (b. 1968, UK) is a professor in th
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 land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institut ...

. 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 architectural group formed in the 1960s ⁠that was neofuturistic, anti-heroic and pro-consumerist, drawing inspiration from technology in order to create a new reality that was solely expressed through hypothetical ...

group, the

Situationists The Situationist International (SI) was an international organization of social revolutionaries made up of avant-garde artists, intellectuals, and political theorists. It was prominent in Europe from its formation in 1957 to its dissolution ...

, and

counterculture A counterculture is a culture whose values and norms of behavior differ substantially from those of mainstream society, sometimes diametrically opposed to mainstream cultural mores.Eric Donald Hirsch. ''The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy''. Hou ...

. He keynoted at th
Design History Society
(2017), the “Alteration” symposium at th
Moderna Museet
Stockholm (2011), th
Architectural Humanities Research Association
(2011), and the 1st International Conference on Structures and Architecture, Guimarães (2010), and was the discussant with

Michael Pollan Michael Kevin Pollan (; born February 6, 1955) is an American author and journalist, who is currently Professor of the Practice Non-Fiction and the first Lewis K. Chan Arts Lecturer at Harvard University. Concurrently, he is the Knight Professo ...

at the Berkeley Art Museum (2017). He was an Andrew W. Mellon Researcher at the

Canadian Centre for Architecture The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA; french: Centre Canadien d'Architecture) is a Architecture museum, museum of architecture and research centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 1920, rue Baile (1920, Baile Street), between r ...

, 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, 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, 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, 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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sadler, Simon 1968 births Living people English architectural historians Academics of the University of Nottingham