Author

Pedro Gadanho is an architect, curator and writer. Currently, he is a Loeb Fellow at Harvard university..

Between 2012 and 2016, he was a Curator for Contemporary Architecture at the Department of Architecture and Design at MoMA, in New York. Subsequently he became the founding director of MAAT, the Museum of Art Architecture and Technology, in Lisbon, until 2019.

He was the editor-in-chief of Beyond, Short Stories on the Post-Contemporary –  a bookazine started in 2009 through Sun Architecture, ….. and he is the author of Arquitectura em Público (Dafne, 2011).

For a quick snapshot of his architecture work see the report at  The Coolhunter. For a  profile and interview see the New York Times.

He teached at the Oporto Faculty of Architecture, and from 2000 to 2003 he was a co-director of ExperimentaDesign. He was the curator of international shows such as Space Invaders, for the British Council, London, and Pancho Guedes, An Alternative Modernist, for the Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel.

Among consultancies, jury participations and academic activities, he integrated the Advisory Panel for the British Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2010, and was the co-organizer of the 1st International Conference on Architecture and Fiction – Once Upon a Place.

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