Pedro gadanho biography

Pedro Gadanho is an architect, curator and writer.

A 2020 Loeb Fellow from Harvard University, Gadanho holds an MA in art and architecture, and has a PhD in architecture and mass media.

From 2012 to 2016, he was the curator of contemporary architecture at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Between 2015 and 2019, he was the founding Director of MAAT, the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, in Lisbon, where he initiated more than 50 exhibition projects, including shows and publications such as Utopia/Dystopia, Tension & Conflict, and Eco-Visionaries.

Gadanho holds an MA in art and archi- tecture and a PhD in architecture and mass media.

After the Executive Direction of a bid for European Capital of Culture 2027 by a coalition of 17 cities in Portugal’s interior, he became a Guest Professor at the University of Beira Interior.

He has edited the BEYOND bookazine, the Shrapnel Contemporary blog, and contributes regularly to international publications.

He wrote Climax Change! How Architecture Must Transform in the Age of Ecological Emergenc