All Outputs (31)

Digital branding luxury student ‘hotels’ at UK universities (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This essay builds on an on-going cinematic survey of the changing neoliberal landscape of UK university campuses, started in 2016
who have been filming the physical transformation that has been occurring in the lifecycle of many university campuses... Read More about Digital branding luxury student ‘hotels’ at UK universities.

Cinematic collage as architectural design research (2019)
Book Chapter

This chapter argues that cinematic representation can, and must, be understood as a method of developing a form of critical architectural enquiry and thinking in the same manner as text - a textual analysis and a communication means for practice-base... Read More about Cinematic collage as architectural design research.

A Critical Cinematic Survey of The Death and Life of UK Universities (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This presentation will screen and discuss extracts from a film which the authors are currently producing entitled The Death and Life of UK Universities. The film is a cinematic database survey being compiled of the changing space of all British unive... Read More about A Critical Cinematic Survey of The Death and Life of UK Universities.

Reading architecture: Re-drawing the line between consumption and learning (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper examines a pedagogic approach to architecture that re-instates the primacy of drawing as a site for examining the compliance of architecture with commodity form. It analyses a critical pedagogy that has emerged under the increasing commodi... Read More about Reading architecture: Re-drawing the line between consumption and learning.

The Bristol Art Library (2017)
Journal Article

This is a visual essay that analyses the changing function of the public space of the library through the juxtaposition of image and text. It looks at The Bristol Art Library, a performance space and fully functioning library, housed in a wooden cabi... Read More about The Bristol Art Library.

'In-between': Architectural drawing as interdisciplinary spatial discourse (2015)
Journal Article

© 2015 RIBA Enterprises. This essay discusses the role of non-normative architectural representational practices in architectural design-based research. From a reading of Michel Foucault's concept of discursive formations, it sets out an inter-discip... Read More about 'In-between': Architectural drawing as interdisciplinary spatial discourse.

An architectural gleaning (2013)
Book Chapter

Carless takes on the notion of ‘gleaning’, the activity of searching through debris to find things that can be re-used and incorporated into anything new – in her case, primarily architectural renovations. …
She does this by basing her ideas on Agne... Read More about An architectural gleaning.

Reclaiming public space. A critical architecture (2013)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The theme of this paper is to consider the increasing commodification of space and the role of architecture and urban design within this schema. It will examine public space and consider where it resides and how this is shifting. It will look at the... Read More about Reclaiming public space. A critical architecture.

Producing space, the confrontation between abstract space and everyday life: I wunder if heaven got a ghetto (2013)
Journal Article

This paper is intended as a contribution to current debates about the changing conditions of urban space and uneven development. It will analyse the functions of the architectural professions in this process and how their productions prefigure the so... Read More about Producing space, the confrontation between abstract space and everyday life: I wunder if heaven got a ghetto.

Drawing register. A line of thinking
Digital Artefact

This outlines an on-going archival project of discursive drawing practice. It documents a process of developing spatial theory through practice and a form of spatial resistance as a collaborative, shared representation and a public discourse.

The... Read More about Drawing register. A line of thinking.

Drawing
Book Chapter

This is an encyclopaedia entry. It offers a contemporary review of the use and application of drawing as architectural research for vernacular and anthropological investigation and analysis.