Ig Nacio, if you have to crop the photo, I assume you mean vignetting as in "no image." This would be because the image circle is not large enough for your film. What I was referring to is better described as "fall-off" and is a loss of light at the edges of wider lenses. This is inherent to non-retrofocus designs common in LF.
I can not tell what you know or don't know about LF, so I must recommend you first read "The Camera" by Ansel Adams, or any of the other books that give a good baseline for LF. That will give you a good bit of info about movements and why you would use them.
Here's what I can tell you. Whenever I shoot architecture, I use front rise a LOT to correct keystoning and get the tops of the buildings in. This is pretty standard. You need a large image circle and a camera that can do front rise, preferably a lot of it. Your Linhof, with a 90mm lens, will allow a bit of front rise but not much - in the later Master, they added a flap on the top of the camera to allow more. This is why a monorail is a better tool. If you use a 75mm, you likely won't be able to use any movements, or a few millimeters. If you want a whole bunch of street in your photo, or a tilted building, that's your choice, but know that is the only option. And a longer lens will work fine, but may not be wide enough of course.
Simply put, if I am going out to shoot architecture, I bring my Toyo GII monorail with Schneider 72mm XL and 90mm XL lenses primarily, and sometimes a Nikkor-SW 120mm just in case I need something longer. Never used much else except a 58mm or 47mm for indoor shots (basically no movements possible with those). The Toyo is a monster but there are lighter options available.
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