João Borges da Cunha (Lisbon, 1973) is an architect by FAUL – Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon, Portugal (grade Good, cum Laude, 1997). He is a PhD in Cultural Studies (Summa cum Laude, 2014) by UCP – Universidade Católica Portuguesa, by defending his thesis “Representação, imersão e interiores: Culturas de Espaço em ‘To the Lighthouse’ e ‘Buddenbrooks’”. He is an Assistant Professor at the Integrated Master in Architecture and at the Master in Teaching Visual Arts, at ECATI – School of Communication, Arts and Information Technologies of ULHT – Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, lecturing on History and Theory of Architecture, and on Arts and Sciences of Representation. He was awarded the Prize Branquinho da Fonseca/Expresso/Gulbenkian in 2003.
Publications
- Cunha, João Borges da (2016), «Locus anonymous: place, anonymity and irony» in The Aesthetics and Politics of Irony, Alves, Elsa, Dinger, Ana, eds. [no prelo], artigo resultante de ‘paper’ à 4th Graduate Conference in Culture Studies, Irony: framing (post)modernity, January 2014 at the Catholic University of Portugal.
- Cunha, João Borges da (2013), «The Bernhardian Cachectonica: figures of architectural discomfort and distress in Thomas Bernhard’s fiction», in Gadanho, Pedro, Oliveira, Susana (Ed.), Once Upon a Place: Architecture & Fiction, Lisboa: Caleidoscópio; pp. 169-175.
- Cunha, João Borges da, Lourenço, Jorge Fazenda (2011), Corpo, Arquitectura, Poema: Leituras inter-artes na poesia de Jorge de Sena, Lisboa: Assírio & Alvim.
- Cunha, João Borges da (2008), «Metáfora e Crime – a continuação do delito no centenário do libelo anti-ornamento de Adolf Loos», in Revista Lusófona de Arquitectura e Educação [http://revistas.ulusofona.pt/index.php/revlae/article/view/1820].
- Cunha, João Borges da (2005), «Arquitectura por decreto», in Jornal Público, 23 de Outubro, p. 8.
