Pedro Gadanho

Pedro Gadanho was born in Covilhã in 1968. He divides his activity between architecture, curating, writing and cultural production. He was the first director of the Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology (MAAT) in Lisbon and curator of architecture at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York. He is currently leading Guarda’s bid to become European Capital of Culture 2027.

Wim Mertens was Pedro’s choice and we added The Talking Heads, in a wink to New York.

In this series of interviews, we talk to architects who haven’t followed the traditional path of the profession: with one foot in architecture, their professional activity has found fertile ground in other creative fields. We navigate between expectations and archetypes: we try to understand how a background in architecture enabled an alternative career path, how this “transition” took place and where this matrix still manifests itself in their daily activity.
We talk in the workspace of each guest, who also chooses the soundtrack, between the music they listen to while working or simply the music they can’t stop listening to.

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