Unfinished & Far Far Away: The Architecture of Irving Smith Architect

John Walsh

Edited by Aaron Betsky Altrim Publishers, 2023 Ambition is a drive with a metropolitan destination. Even in the contemporary, connected world, it takes far more than a village to provide the opportunities for high-level self-actualisation. More than a provincial town, too. It takes determined ingenuity to combine living in a small city with engagement in the big world, especially if that small city is, on most maps, far, far away. Step forward Jeremy Smith and, with him, Andrew Irving, partners in the Nelson practice Irving Smith Architects. Smith is an alternative incarnation of ambition in a profession in which the trait is most overtly advertised by the monochromatic alt-corporate uniform of certain large practices. In contrast to these Jesuits, Smith seems more akin to a mendicant friar, loosely garbed and lightly shod, but…

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Architecture NZ (Digital) - 1 Issue, November-December 2023

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