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Tonia Carless

I work as Associate Professor in Architecture with an interest in spatial politics and everyday life, the production of public space and utopia. I also teach in Theory of Architecture for year 1-3. 

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Associate professor at Umeå School of Architecture
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Arkitekthögskolan, Östra Strandgatan 30c Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan, SE-90187 Umeå

Tonia's research and teaching is centred upon representational practice, drawing as architectural research and theory through transdisciplinary practice. She researches in urban inequalities, urban transformation and social and material sustainability and is undertaking a collaborative research project on the 'Mediated University' (a forthcoming book) on the social production of space, as well as publications on architecture film making, visual research methods in architecture and reconsiderations of interior architecture. She completed a practice based PhD, through written, drawn and spatial thesis on architectural drawing and its relationship with the changing conditions of urban space.

Tonia has held academic positions as Programme Leader for Interior Architecture at The University of The West of England Bristol and Oxford Brookes School of Architecture, both in the UK. She is currently External Examiner for Birmingham City (UK) University School of Architecture Interior Architecture and Design Courses. 

Encyclopedia of vernacular architecture of the world
Carless, Tonia
Relate North: Possible Futures, Viseu: InSEA Publishing 2023 : 132-151
Carless, Tonia; Brown, James Benedict
London: msdm publications 2023
Carless, Tonia; Serjeant, Robin; roush, paula; et al.
Visual research methods in architecture, Bristol: Intellect Ltd. 2021 : 317-334
Carless, Tonia
UMA Works 20/21, Umeå: Umeå University 2021 : 40-41
Carless, Tonia; Barquero Campana, Esperanza; Conway, Richard; et al.
Architecture_MPS, UCL Press 2021, Vol. 19, (1)
Troiani, Igea; Carless, Tonia
Architecture filmmaking, Bristol: Intellect Ltd. 2020 : 323-333
Troiani, Igea; Carless, Tonia
Performance Research, London: Taylor & Francis 2017, Vol. 22, (1) : 25-26
Other, Annabel; Carless, Tonia
Journal of Architecture, Routledge 2015, Vol. 20, (02) : 268-292
Troiani, Igea; Carless, Tonia
Reinventing architecture and interiors: a socio-political view on building adaptation, London: Libri Publishing 2013 : 157-175
Carless, Tonia
arq Architecture research quarterly, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2013, Vol. 17, (2) : 139-147
Carless, Tonia
Occupation: negotiations with constructed space
Carless, Tonia
Spaces and Flows: An International Journal of Urban and ExtraUrban Studies, USA: Common Ground Publishing 2011, Vol. 1, (1) : 141-156
Carless, Tonia

Research projects

1 January 2022

Theory of Architecture 1:2 5AR137

Theory of Architecture 2:2 5AR208

Theory of Architecture 3:2 5AR305