Pedro Cavaco Leitão

Moradavaga is a collective born from the collaboration of architects Manfred Eccli (Bolzano, Italy, 1981) and Pedro Cavaco Leitão (Porto, Portugal, 1976). Based in Kaltern/Caldaro (Italy) and Porto (Portugal), Moradavaga started working in 2006 around the issues of vacant spaces, derelict buildings and the activation of the public realm, devising performative objects and active interventions, such as social workshops, ideas competitions and architectural happenings. Intersecting architecture, art and design, our works function as “dormant tools” in a waiting status, requiring the users engagement to activate them. Moradavaga’s varied and eclectic body of work, has gained international recognition over the years as evidenced by its participation in events promoted by renowned institutions and organizations such as Taipei Public Arts Festival (Taipei, Taiwan, 2017), Walk&Talk (Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Azores, 2016), Altrememorie - Parco dell'arte (Val Saisera, Friulian Alps, Italy, 2016), XXI Triennale di Milano (Objects After Objects, Portuguese Official Representation, 2016), Minus 20 Degree (Art & Architecture Winter Biennale, Flachau, 2016), Centro Cultural de Belém(Tanto Mar – Portugueses Fora de Portugal, Lisbon, 2014), Guimarães 2012 – European Capital of Culture (Pop Up Culture, 2012), Fundação de Serralves (Serralves em Festa, Porto, 2010), Oficina Segovia 2016 (Noche de Luna Llena, 2008).