Larissa Ribeiro Cunha (Brazil, 1984) is an Architect and Urban Planner with a solid academic background and dedicated research experience in Architecture, Photography, and Urban History. She holds a bachelor’s and master’s degree in architecture and urban planning from the Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU), Brazil, with a focus on modern heritage, photographic archives, and urban scale.

Her approach is multidisciplinary. She has exhibited photographic works in Portugal and Spain; she curated and produced a photography exhibition for her master’s thesis. From 2016 to 2020, she worked as a university professor in Brazil, teaching in Architecture and Urban Planning and Civil Engineering, supervising undergraduate research and master’s theses, and participating in final committees for undergraduate thesis projects.

She is currently a Ph.D. Candidate at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto (FAUP), with funding from the Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). Her doctoral research, entitled “ANTÓNIO MENÉRES: Paths of Portuguese and Brazilian Architecture in Photography,” examines the photographic work of architect-photographer António Menéres, combining iconography, affective image theory, and architectural historiography. She is a collaborator researcher in the T2P (Theory and Design Practices) research group at the Center for Architecture and Urbanism Studies (CEAU) at FAUP and an associate member of Women in Architecture (Portugal).

As a member of the aRTes project team, she brings a visual and interpretive lens to the study of rooftops and urban life in Southern Europe, contributing her expertise in documentation, narrative, and interdisciplinary analysis. Fluent in Portuguese and based in Portugal for her doctorate, she brings linguistic and cultural expertise to the project’s focus on Southern European contexts.

Keywords: architectural photography, modern heritage, urban public space, visual culture & archives, gender and informality, curatorial practices