From life at the beach in Whakatū Nelson, Irving Smith Architects have contributed work, research and teaching from Dhaka to Paris, Taliesin West to Aalto University, UNESCO to UN-Habitat and the World Government Summit. Their Soft Architecture has seen them publish a book with Aaron Betsky, teach studio in America and work with Shigeru Ban and his Tokyo office. Their approach to Making Wood Matter comes from our islands for in this climate emergency everyone and everywhere counts. We are, as Jeremy Smith and Andrew Irving suggest, all far far away from somewhere.
Jeremy is Design Director at Irving Smith Architects, has a PhD in Architecture undertaken through creative practice, is an Adjunct Professor at both Aotearoa New Zealand’s newest architecture school in Ōtepoti Dunedin and Africa’s first PhD thru creative practice program, has an advisory role in India, and, as the 2023 John G Williams Distinguished Visiting Practitioner to the University of Arkansas joined an illustrious list of past recipients including Peter Eisenman, Brian MacKay-Lyons and Tom Kundig. Key to Jeremy’s practice, teaching, and research, is understanding how buildings inhabit an environment that constantly undergoes change, be it in city or rural landscapes.