“Unfinished and Far Far Away” A Special Talk by The New Zealand Architect Jeremy Smith

Date: Monday, November 11, 2024
Time: 6:00 PM
Venue: Level 2 of Bengal Institute, 45 Kemal Ataturk Avenue, Banani, Dhaka 1213

The award winning New Zealand practice of Irving Smith Architects (Andrew Irving and Jeremy Smith) is a research-based design practice working in sensitive environments throughout New Zealand and abroad. By building with the land, and not on it, their projects open up, condense, focus, and interpret both the natural and the human-made settings of the ‘far far away’, where they live. Irving Smith’s work has been recognized by UN-Habitat, UNESCO, and the World Architecture Festival, which led to teaching, speaking, exhibition and judging engagements around the world, and now a book with American critic and author Aaron Betsky. Unfinished and Far Far Away, The architecture of Irving Smith Architects traces approach of participating with existing landscapes before generating new contexts and furthers a discussion on the global importance of peripheries.

With Andrew Irving and Jeremy Smith’s soft architecture comes the question: Is being finished finished? It’s a question that comes from an island far far away but in this climate emergency, everyone and everywhere counts. As they note: We are all far far away from somewhere.

“Unfinished and Far Far Away” A Special Talk by The New Zealand Architect Jeremy Smith

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