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Ashley Caruso

Lecturer

Ashley is a part time Lecturer in Architecture at Leeds Beckett University. He also runs London based design studio Store & Archive, working across disciplines such as architecture, image making and experimental fieldworks.

Ashley's practice is process driven, often investigating site specific subject matter. He is currently redeveloping a small ruin in rural Portugal and working with local craftsmen to develop pigmented render using soil from the land.

Ashley has worked in architectural practice for Karakusevic Carson Architects and Cousins & Cousins, and has continued interest in exhibition design and curation.

Ashley leads a final year undergraduate design studio at Leeds School of Architecture. His teaching practice introduces students to cross disciplinary creative practice through both analogue and digital methods of experimental image production as a means to interrogate spatial concerns. Specific themes explore cultural vernacular, the ruin/ built heritage, locality of materials and local craftsmanship, the everyday, and sensitive redevelopment.

Current Teaching

BA (Hons) Architecture: 3rd year design

Research Interests

Ashley’s research is primarily practice based, exploring ‘the ruin’ through experimental image making and site specific intervention. He mediates between analogue and digital documentation to explore existing vernacular. A research based approach to built practice allows the reimagining and sensitive reinterpretation of existing ruins within all built projects.