Matthew Leander Kalil, editor, researcher, writer
Selected Projects
The fortune of the city is that it has never been perfect: Alvaro Siza on the Urban
Exhibition
Curated by Giovanna Borasi
Curatorial Assistant: Laura Aparicio Llorente
Canadian Centre for Architecture
2026
From the CCA website:
“Álvaro Siza has always worked in building places, neighbourhoods, and cities. The fortune of the city is that it has never been perfect explores his urban projects through his experiential way of understanding a place, its shape, its embodied history, and its life. In considering these aspects across his projects, Siza seeks to determine the right scale of intervening and building within existing frameworks, rather than only designing single buildings.”
Image:
The fortune of the city is that it has never been perfect, exhibition view, CCA, 2026. Photograph: Sandra Larochelle.
www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/102435/the-fortune-of-the-city-is-that-it-has-never-been-perfect
Role: Researcher, co-author and co-editor of exhibition texts, co-editor of curatorial text.
Exhibition
Curated by Giovanna Borasi
Curatorial Assistant: Laura Aparicio Llorente
Canadian Centre for Architecture
2026
From the CCA website:
“Álvaro Siza has always worked in building places, neighbourhoods, and cities. The fortune of the city is that it has never been perfect explores his urban projects through his experiential way of understanding a place, its shape, its embodied history, and its life. In considering these aspects across his projects, Siza seeks to determine the right scale of intervening and building within existing frameworks, rather than only designing single buildings.”
Image:
The fortune of the city is that it has never been perfect, exhibition view, CCA, 2026. Photograph: Sandra Larochelle.
www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/102435/the-fortune-of-the-city-is-that-it-has-never-been-perfect
Role: Researcher, co-author and co-editor of exhibition texts, co-editor of curatorial text.
The Loggia in Italian Communes
Kim Sexton
Brepols
2026
From Brepols:
“From the 11th century onwards, loggias put the new life-world of self-governing communes in Italy on view for a savvy public, showcasing leading citizens engaged in activities which, for the times, were ethically cutting-edge; in so doing, these deceptively simple buildings helped advance progressive attitudes toward commerce, sociability, and self-rule before the dawn of the modern era.”
ISBN: 978-2-503-61751-0
www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503617510-1
Role: Copy editor
Kim Sexton
Brepols
2026
From Brepols:
“From the 11th century onwards, loggias put the new life-world of self-governing communes in Italy on view for a savvy public, showcasing leading citizens engaged in activities which, for the times, were ethically cutting-edge; in so doing, these deceptively simple buildings helped advance progressive attitudes toward commerce, sociability, and self-rule before the dawn of the modern era.”
ISBN: 978-2-503-61751-0
www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503617510-1
Role: Copy editor
Architecture in the Age of Mediatizing Technologies
Sang Lee
Routledge
2024
From Routledge:
“This book offers a novel perspective on contemporary architecture, exploring its position in mediatization, attained through technological apparatuses. It introduces the novel concepts of apparatus-centricity and mediatization of architecture, which have significant disciplinary and cultural ramifications.”
ISBN: 9781032060606
Role: Copy editor, Proofreader.
Sang Lee
Routledge
2024
From Routledge:
“This book offers a novel perspective on contemporary architecture, exploring its position in mediatization, attained through technological apparatuses. It introduces the novel concepts of apparatus-centricity and mediatization of architecture, which have significant disciplinary and cultural ramifications.”
ISBN: 9781032060606
Role: Copy editor, Proofreader.
“Notes on fragments of the CCA’s reflection”
In Curatorial Design: A Place Between
Co-written with Francesco Garutti
Edited by Wilfried Kuehn & Dubravka Sekulić
Lenz Press
2025
In this experimental essay, Francesco Garutti and I take excerpts from various sources expressing the CCA’s curatorial and museological identity and explore their corrolaries.
www.lenz.press/products/curatorial-design
Role: co-author
In Curatorial Design: A Place Between
Co-written with Francesco Garutti
Edited by Wilfried Kuehn & Dubravka Sekulić
Lenz Press
2025
In this experimental essay, Francesco Garutti and I take excerpts from various sources expressing the CCA’s curatorial and museological identity and explore their corrolaries.
www.lenz.press/products/curatorial-design
Role: co-author