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Cinematic collage as architectural design research (2019)
Book Chapter
Carless, T., & Troiani, I. (2020). Cinematic collage as architectural design research. In H. Campbell, & I. Troiani (Eds.), Architecture Filmmaking. Bristol: Intellect

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
Carless, T., & Troiani, I. (2019, September). A Critical Cinematic Survey of The Death and Life of UK Universities. Paper presented at Slices of Everyday Life, Cambridge University Newnham College Department of Architecture

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
Carless, T. (2018, February). Reading architecture: Re-drawing the line between consumption and learning. Paper presented at Process and Practice Across Design Disciplines PPADD 2018 AUS, College of Architecture Art and Design at The American University of Sharjah UAE

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.

'In-between': Architectural drawing as interdisciplinary spatial discourse (2015)
Journal Article
Carless, T., & Troiani, I. (2015). 'In-between': Architectural drawing as interdisciplinary spatial discourse. Journal of Architecture, 20(2), 268-292. https://doi.org/10.1080/13602365.2015.1027720

© 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, T. (2013). An architectural gleaning. In G. Cairns (Ed.), Reinventing Architecture and Interiors: A Socio-Political View on Building Adaptation (157-175). Oxfordshire: Libri Publishing

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)
Conference Proceeding
Carless, T., Mead, T., Diaz, L., & Creed, I. (2013). Reclaiming public space. A critical architecture. In T. Meade, L. Diaz, & I. Creed (Eds.), OCCUPATION: Negotiations With Constructed Space (26-27)

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
Carless, T. (2013). Producing space, the confrontation between abstract space and everyday life: I wunder if heaven got a ghetto. arq: Architectural Research Quarterly, 17(2), 139-147. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1359135513000493

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
Book Chapter
Carless, T. (2019). Drawing. In M. Vellinga (Ed.), The Encyclopaedia of Vernacular Architecture of the World. London: Bloomsbury. Manuscript submitted for publication

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.