FROM:AD Interviews: Pedro Gadanho
Pedro Gadanho
Pedro Gadanho is a Portuguese architect, curator, teacher and writer, appointed as the Curator for Contemporary Architecture at the MoMA in January last year.
Pedro is a prolific writer, who uses a blog as a laboratory for his ideas about architecture and urbanism fresh views on the current states of cities and how architecture can transform them, that will sure have an impact on what the Department of Architecture of the Museum focuses on.
During this past year Pedro has been involved in the YAP (Young Architects Program) a platform to discover young architects and foster new ideas through installations at the MoMA PS1 (Queens, NY), the MAXXXI Museum (Rome, Italy), the Istanbul Modern Museum (Istanbul, Turkey) and with CONSTRUCTO (Santiago, Chile).
Pedro also curated the exhibit “9 + 1 Ways of Being Political: 50 Years of Political Stances in Architecture and Urban Design” (open until Jun 9th, 2013; Architecture and Design Galleries, third floor), where his views of city and architecture come together in the form of a selection of fresh ideas and examples of architects who actively shaped our cities. The opening of the exhibit included the architectural performance “IKEA Disobedients” by Andres Jaque.
In today’s world, where we have access to everything that is happening at the the tip of our fingers, the role of the curators take more and more relevance to understand our new context.
Pedro Gadanho是葡萄牙建築師，策展人，教師和作家，去年1月被任命為現代藝術博物館的當代建築策展人。
佩德羅是一位多產的作家，他利用博客作為實驗室，對建築和都市主義的觀點提出了對當前城市狀況的新觀點以及建築如何改造它們，這肯定會對博物館建築系的影響產生影響。專注於。
在過去的一年裡，Pedro參與了YAP（青年建築師計劃）平台，通過在MoMA PS1（紐約皇后區），MAXXXI博物館（意大利羅馬），伊斯坦布爾現代藝術館的裝置，發現年輕建築師並培養新想法。博物館（土耳其伊斯坦布爾）和CONSTRUCTO（智利聖地亞哥）。
佩德羅還策劃了“9 + 1政治方式：建築與城市設計中的政治立場50年”（開放至2013年6月9日;建築與設計畫廊，三樓），展示了他對城市和建築的看法一起形成一系列新鮮的想法和建築師的例子，他們積極塑造我們的城市。展覽的開幕式包括Andres Jaque的建築表演“IKEA Disobedients”。
在今天的世界裡，我們可以接觸到指尖所發生的一切，策展人的角色對於理解我們的新環境越來越重要。
