Biography

Pedro Gadanho, Architect, Curator and Writer

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Pedro Gadanho is an architect, curator, and writer. He is currently a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University. Previously, he was the founding Director of MAAT, the new Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, in Lisbon. There, he initiated more than 50 exhibitions, curating new commissions by artists such as Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Carlos Garaicoa, Tomás Saraceno or Jesper Just, as well as major interdisciplinary shows and publications including Utopia / Dystopia, Tension & Conflict, and Eco-Visionaries. He was also a curator of contemporary architecture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, where he coordinated the Young Architects Program, and curated exhibitions such as 9+1 Ways of Being Political, Uneven Growth, and A Japanese Constellation. He has edited the BEYOND bookazine, the Shrapnel Contemporary blog, and contributes regularly to international publications. Gadanho holds an MA in art and architecture, and is a PhD in architecture and mass media. He wrote Arquitetura em Público, a recipient of the FAD Prize for Thought and Criticism in 2012.