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Structural moves in Norlands (2023)
Book Chapter
Carless, T. (in press). Structural moves in Norlands. In Possible Futures. (10). University of the Arctic’s Arctic Sustainable Arts and Design thematic network (ASAD), Yukon University, and University of Lapland: Insea Publications

This chapter is derived from an interdisciplinary panel group who were participants of an online symposium Relate North 10: Possible Futures hosted by Yukon University Canada January 27-28 2023. The participants included Magnus Mårtesson (MM), Hous... Read More about Structural moves in Norlands.

Wide Load [Bred Last] A House Moved (2023)
Book
Carless, T., Sarjeant, R., Benedict Brown, J., Hynam, M., & Roush, P. (2023). T. Carless (Ed.). Wide Load [Bred Last] A House Moved. London: msdm London

https://www.msdm.org.uk/wide-load This book is a photographic archive and written essays of a house move in Northern Sweden. It considers the historic, cultural, technical and material significance of house moving in the region, through a single his... Read More about Wide Load [Bred Last] A House Moved.

Wide Load: A House Moved (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Carless, T., Serjeant, R., Brown, J., roush, P., & Hynam, M. Wide Load: A House Moved. [Artist book]. 27 January 2023 - 27 January 2023. (Unpublished)

This artist book is a photographic archive and text of a house move in Northern Sweden. It considers the historic, cultural, technical and material significance of wholesale house moving (husflyttningar) in the region, through a single, historic hous... Read More about Wide Load: A House Moved.

Studio archaeology (2021)
Physical Artefact
Banou, S., Carless, T., Drozynski, C., Grogoriadou, E., Hynam, M., Littlefield, D., & Roush, P. Studio archaeology. [Paper, concertina and six pamphlets]. London

Spatial imagination, free-hand and digital drawing, model making and diagramming, modelling techniques, theoretical position, are a particular focus, this year, to focus upon the human occupation of space, the loss of social space correlating with th... Read More about Studio archaeology.

Just painting. Performative painting as visual discourse (2021)
Book Chapter
Carless, T. (2021). Just painting. Performative painting as visual discourse. In I. Troiani, & S. Ewing (Eds.), Visual Research Methods in Architecture. Bristol: Intellect

This chapter considers the possibilities of using performative painting as a form of visual and spatial architectural research, where the act of painting is part of the research itself. The paintings are of specific sites and sights that are localise... Read More about Just painting. Performative painting as visual discourse.

The death and life of UK universities and the cultural spaces they consume (2021)
Journal Article
Carless, T., & Troiani, I. (2021). The death and life of UK universities and the cultural spaces they consume. Architecture_MPS, 19(1), 3-12. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.amps.2021v19i1.002

The shift in focus in UK higher education since Thatcherism from the production of knowledge for civic betterment to the production and consumption of knowledge by the university for revenue generation can be read through the social rearrangement o... Read More about The death and life of UK universities and the cultural spaces they consume.

Digital branding luxury student ‘hotels’ at UK universities (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Carless, T., & Troiani, I. (2020). Digital branding luxury student ‘hotels’ at UK universities. In H. Griffin, & G. Cairns (Eds.), Connections: Exploring Heritage, Architecture, Cities, Art, Media (136-144)

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
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

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 WorldLondon: 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.