Pedro Gadanho joins MOMA

as curator of Architecture and Design

The Museum of Modern Art announces that Pedro Gadanho, a Lisbon-based architect, curator, and writer whose international work has focused on the connections between architecture and contemporary culture, has been appointed Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design

In his new role, Mr. Gadanho will be responsible for a broad portfolio that reinforces the Museum's commitment, since 1932, to contemporary architecture.

In addition to building the Museum's holdings of contemporary architecture, he will oversee the annual Young Architects Program (YAP), co-organized with MoMA PS1, and the two-year-old YAP International Program in conjunction with the MAXXI in Rome and Constructo in Santiago, Chile; organize further exhibitions in the Museum's "Issues in Contemporary Architecture" series; and develop larger scale exhibitions of contemporary architecture, including exhibitions that explore relationships between architecture and other contemporary art practices.

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Pedro's previous work:

Family home by Pedro Gadanho [photo © Fernando Guerra ]

Family home by Pedro Gadanho [photo © Fernando Guerra ]

Family home by Pedro Gadanho [photo © Fernando Guerra ]