CUIDADO is an art and architecture consultancy initiative by Larissa Guimaraes. She is currently the International Art Specialist ⇁ at Astaguru, in Mumbai.
She has an art history, design and research background with experience in curating and managing small to mid-scale private and public collections and programs in arts and culture. The focus of the practice is to set up networks of care for cultural assets through the engagement of people. This involves collectors, owners, custody holders, external consultants, and the public. Her research focuses on 20th century Latin American and contemporary South Asian art and architecture.
Larissa is a graduate of Columbia University (BA Architecture, Art History 2018) where she was a John Jay Scholar and the recipient of the Robert Shellow Gerdy Prize for publications, and of Princeton University (Masters of Architecture 2021, Media and Modernity certificate) where she received the Alpha Rho Chi medal for leadership and service. Her work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation Initiative in Architecture, and she is fluent in English, Portuguese, Spanish and French.
CUIDADO. noun (Portuguese).
attention: due and special care
with trouble: she wrapped it very carefully
precaution: do it carefully
responsibility: she’s taken over the care of the garden
well-elaborated finish: she is well cared for
precise, considered: her diction is careful
caution: look out, be careful!
WRITING
2024 Cavities on Canvas ⇁ a quest for cookies down the vitrines of Art History, Ether Chocolate: Canvas 004 | 2022 Building collectivity from the bottom up in Mumbai’s Kotachi Wadi ⇁ IAAC entry | 2021 Trem de Arte ⇁ MIT Thresholds no. 49 | 2020 A Critical Attitude in Face of Reality, Princeton SoA Pidgin no. 28 | 2018 Walls of Air ⇁ Brazilian Pavilion catalog at the Venice Biennale (editorial contributor) | 2015 Sounds from Down Under ⇁ The Eye magazine feature
PRESS
2024 Picasso, Chagall, Dali: Bringing international artists to Indian buyers ⇁ Forbes India (quote)
CURATORIAL
2023 Contemporary Practices Model Ideas ⇁ Geoffrey Bawa Trust (assistant curator, project lead) | 2020 Re: Mail Art, Firestone Library at Princeton University (curator) | 2018 Glass Houses ⇁ Instituto Bardi (curatorial assistant)
PROGRAMMING
2022 De Saram House artist residency ⇁ Geoffrey Bawa Trust (assistant curator, project lead) | 2022 Norma Merrick Sklarek Lecture ⇁ Barnard College (committee advisor) | 2020 Minette de Silva at Women in Design and Architecture ⇁ Princeton University (president) | 2020 (A)Synchrony: Recurrence, Reversal and Resistance Symposium in conversation with Nora Okka, Princeton University Art & Archeology (respondent)
EDITORIAL
2023 Lina Bo Bardi Material Ideologies ⇁ Princeton University Press (publication assistant) | 2018 Water Communities ⇁ Barnard College (editor) | 2016 Portales Columbia University (editor)
RESEARCH
2023 DocoMoMo Germany Forgotten Masterpieces of Architecture Conference Fellow | 2021 Preservation Circus ⇁ An itinerant exhibition through threatened Modern heritage in Latin America | 2018 Modern architecture in South Asia: a 100-year non-exhaustive timeline, MoMA (curatorial intern) | 2020 Manual of Physical Distancing ⇁ LTL Architects (researcher)
TEACHING
2022 Syracuse University School of Architecture Architectural Design Studio ⇁ (studio instructor) | 2021 Princeton School of Architecture Interdisciplinary Studio with Elisa Silva (assistant-in-instruction) | 2020 Princeton School of Architecture Introduction to Architectural Theory with Kurt Forster (assistant-in-instruction) | 2019 Princeton School of Architecture Introduction to Urban Studies with M. Christine Boyer (assistant-in-instruction)