Renato Leão Rego

Professor Renato Leão Rego, PhD (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), is a Brazilian architect, historian and professor at the State University of Maringá (UEM), Brazil. His teaching focuses on modern architecture and town planning history, and his current research project is related to the construction of new towns in developing countries. He has been Associate Research Fellow at the Centre for Iberian and Latin American Visual Studies (CILAVS), Birkbeck College, UK (2007-2008); and Visiting Professor at the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, USA (2011), and Researcher at the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism (FAU), University of São Paulo, Brazil (2013-2014). He is member of the editorial board of Planning Perspectives, council member of IPHS and researcher at the (Brazilian) National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). He has published widely on the diffusion of foreign planning ideas in Brazil. Orcid 0000-0003-1822-2907.