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Biographical note
Réjean Legault studied architecture at the Université de Montréal and holds a Ph.D. in the History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is professor at the École de design at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), where he teaches graduate seminars in environmental design and modern architecture and heritage. His conferences, publications, and exhibitions focus on the history and historiography of North American and European postwar architecture. His most recent publications include the monograph The Canada Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (Cinq Continents, 2020) and essays on subjects including the materiality of Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute, the afterlife of the U.S. Pavilion at Expo 67, and the contested notion of brutalism in architecture.