Fiona Cuypers-Stanienda (b. 1992) is an architecture photographer, documenting how people interact with the built environment. Educated as an architect at prominent universities such as ETH Zurich, University of the Arts Berlin, and the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) in London, where she earned her AA Diploma and Master of Architecture.

Fiona's work has been showcased in well-known publications and exhibitions, including the Architect's Journal, Wallpaper*, REAL, AA Bookshop, and the British School at Rome. In 2020, her thesis was highlighted in the Architect's Journal. She has also worked alongside famous architects and firms, such as Johnston Marklee (Los Angeles, US), Valter Scelsi (Genoa, IT), Studio JK (Hamburg, DE), and with Francis Kéré (Berlin, DE) a winner of the Pritzker Prize.

Since 2022, Fiona runs an architectural-research agency called ‘RRA’ Radical Research & Re-storying Agency, which is informed by the question: “how can the pre-colonial past inform a decolonial future?”. The RRA represents Fiona's commitment to exploring and redefining stories through architecture.


She is available for worldwide commissions, projects, portraits and other inquiries.

Print sales are available on request.