Pedro Gadanho is an architect, curator, and author.
He was a 2020 Loeb Fellow at Harvard University, and holds a Master’s degree in Art and Architecture as well as a PhD in Architecture and Mass Media from the University of Porto.

From 2012 to 2016, he served as Curator for Contemporary Architecture at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in 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.

Between 2015 and 2019, he was the founding director of MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology in Lisbon – where he initiated over fifty projects, including landmark exhibitions and publications such as Utopia/Dystopia, Tension & Conflict, and Eco-Visionaries.

In 2020–21, he was the executive director of a consortium of 17 municipalities from inland Portugal bidding for the title of European Capital of Culture 2027. This was followed by his appointment as Visiting Professor at the University of Beira Interior. In Spring 2024, he also held a Visiting Professorship at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design.

Gadanho is the author of Climax Change! How Architecture Must Transform in the Age of Ecological Emergency (Actar Publishers: New York/Barcelona, 2022). His earlier book, Arquitectura em Público, received the FAD Prize for Thought and Criticism in 2012.

He was the editor of the bookazine Beyond, the blog Shrapnel Contemporary, and is a regular contributor to international publications.