WIDE LOAD [ BRED LAST ] A House Moved

Tonia Carless · Robin Serjeant · paula roush · James Benedict Brown · Matthew Hynam

WIDE LOAD [ BRED LAST ] A House Moved is a collaborative photobook, architectural archive and research project documenting the relocation of a historic house in Umeå, Northern Sweden.

Combining photography, essays, dialogues, drawings, models and archival research, the project examines the spatial politics of un-building, mobility and urban transformation within a context of ecological transition and de-growth.

Structured around a single house move undertaken in 2021, the book traces the building's journey from Teg to Degernäs while situating this event within broader histories of settlement, demolition, adaptation and architectural reuse across Norrland.

authors Tonia Carless · Robin Serjeant · paula roush · James Benedict Brown · Matthew Hynam

format monograph

pages 268

dimensions 14.8 × 10.5 × 2 cm

paper uncoated matt

binding perfect binding

process indigo

colour colour and black and white

publisher msdm publications

publication licence Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

year 2023

isbn 978-1-7391803-1-7

Project

The publication documents the cultural, technical and material significance of house moving (husflyttningar) as a vernacular architectural practice.

Through photographic documentation and experimental forms of representation, WIDE LOAD [ BRED LAST ] A House Moved proposes house moving not as an anomaly but as a cultural practice that challenges conventional assumptions about permanence, ownership and the life cycle of buildings.

The first edition was produced for the opening of Smedjan UmArts, Umeå University, Sweden, 16–17 June 2023.

A later iteration was presented in house_Flow at Form/Design Center Malmö, in collaboration with Copenhagen Architecture Festival (CAFx), September–November 2025.

The pocket-sized edition accompanies the travelling exhibition house_Flow Counter Move.

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