Matthew Leander Kalil has specialized in architectural publications and exhibitions. This website catalogues his editorial work.

Matthew Leander is the Research Assistant in the Office of the Director at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) and works on many of the CCA’s publications, exhibitions, and films. Outside of the CCA, Leander has edited works published by Routledge, The Architecture Observer, Maas Lawrence, Brepols, a+u, 2G, and El Croquis. Previously, he worked at Office of Adrian Phiffer as a designer, model maker, animator, writer, and editor.

He has an M.Arch from the University of Toronto and a B.A. in Philosophy from The New School University. 

As an independent writer Matthew Leander has been published in Dispatches, Public Parking, About, and Domus and by Lenz Press.

He is based in Montréal.

For inquiries:
m.leanderkalil@protonmail.com

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Matthew Leander also has an artistic practice:
leanderkalil.com





“Wild Juxtapositions by Way of a Confusing Vocabulary”
in a+u 2023:10
Giovanna Borasi
Shinkenchiku-sha
2023

In her signature lighthearted yet analytically astute voice, CCA Director Giovanna Borasi contributes an essay to a+u’s monograph of the Porto-based firm fala. Borasi explores the path of fala’s built work from renovation to new build, and considers how their distinctive geometric, material, and chromatic language might fare during this transtition.

Role: Researcher, Copy editor, Proofreader.