Jeremy Smith
C001709
New Zealand / Architectural Design
JEREMY SMITH : PhD, BArch (Hons First Class), BBSc, BSc, FNZIA : Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Auckland.
Jeremy is Design Director of Irving Smith Architects, a research-based design practice working in sensitive environments throughout New Zealand and abroad. Recent accolades include winning World Timber Building of the Year and World Higher Education and Research Building of the Year at the 2021 World Architecture Festival, The Building at the Indo-Pacific INDE Awards 2021 in Sydney, both the Jury and Popular Choice Architecture + Wood prizes at the 2021 Architizer A+ awards, a Special Judges Prize at the 2020 Taipei International Architecture Awards, a 2019 UNESCO Award of Distinction at the Asia-Pacific Cultural Heritage Awards in Penang, and World Villa of the Year at the 2017 World Architecture Festival in Berlin. ISA have received NZIA New Zealand Architecture Awards in public, commercial and residential categories, and twice won New Zealand’s national timber design award. Recent publications include Architecture Magazine, Architecture Record, Elle, Vogue and GQ Magazine.
Jeremy also is an Adjunct Associate Professor with a design-based PHD at the University of Auckland, writes for Architecture New Zealand and has lectured widely about the practice’s work and research. In 2019 alone, Jeremy presented projects through 8 American Universities, at the New York League of Architects, then in Paris and Amsterdam, before being an international judge and keynote speaker at the 2019 Indian Institute of Architects National Awards of Architectural Excellence. Jeremy has judged the NZIA New Zealand Architecture Awards and at World Architecture Festivals in Singapore, Berlin and Amsterdam, and has recently been appointed an International Advisor to the Saveetha College of Architecture and Design in Chennai, India.
Key to his practice, teaching and research is understanding how buildings inhabit an environment that constantly undergoes change, be it in city or rural landscapes.
Selected Awards:
2021 World Timber Building of Year, World Architecture Festival
2021 World Higher Education and Research Building of the Year, World Architecture Festival
2021 Laureate of the 2021 Eurasian Prize for Architecture, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
2021 Best of the Best Green Building Prize, 2021 Masterprize Architecture Awards, California.
2021 Masterprize Architecture Award, California.
2021 The Building Award, 2021 INDE Indo-Pacific Architecture Awards, Sydney, Australia.
2021 The Influencer Award, 2021 INDE Indo-Pacific Awards, Sydney, Australia.
2021 Architizer A+ Wood and Architecture Award, USA
2021 Architizer A+ Wood and Architecture Award – Popular Choice, USA
2020 Special Judges Award, Taipei International Design Awards, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 UNESCO Award of Distinction, Asia-Pacific Cultural Heritage Conservation Awards, Penang, Malaysia
2018 Architecture Masterprize Award, California, USA
2017 World Villa of the Year, World Architecture Festival 2017, Berlin, Germany
2017 International Design Award (IDA), California, USA.
2015 Highly Commended, World Architecture Festival, Singapore
2011 World Education & Healthcare Structural Award, United Kingdom
2010 Trans-Tasman Australia/New Zealand Timber Design Award
2021 Small HOME of the Year, New Zealand
2021 NZIA New Zealand Architecture Award, Commercial Architecture
2012, 2013, 2018 NZIA New Zealand Architecture Award, Public Architecture
2004, 2007, 2018 NZIA New Zealand Architecture Award, Residential Architecture
2007, 2011 New Zealand Timber Design National Award
2004-2021 50+ NZIA Architecture Awards
2004-2021 50+ Industry and Magazine Awards
Selected Lectures:
2021 Eurasia Architecture Summit, Yekaterinburg, Russia, 15.12.2021 – online.
2021 Roots Annual Dialogues, Chennai, India, 24.11.2021 – online.
2021 Forum 33 at Indubhai Parekh School of Architecture, Rajkot, India, 26.8.2021 – online.
2021 INDE Indo Pacific Architectural Summit, Sydney, 5.8.2021 – online.
2021 RIBA Global Architecture Exchanges: People, Plant, Profession, London, UK, 10.6.2021 - online
2021 Council of Architecture, India, COA Youtube Stream, 28.4.2021 - online
2021 COA Social Reads, Council of Architecture, India, COA Youtube Stream, 26.2.2021 - online
2020 Peter Bevan Memorial Lecture, New Zealand Institute of Architects, Christchurch, New Zealand, 14.10.2020
2020 Indian Institute of Architects and Saveetha College of Design, Chennai, India, 15.8.2020 - online
2019 École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture Paris-Val de Seine, Paris, France 3.12.2019
2019 Design Excellence in Timber and Wood Symposium, Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA 4-6.10.2019
2019 Indian Institute of Architects National Awards for Excellence in Architecture, Thiruvananthapuram, India 4.10.2019
2019 The Architecture League of New York, Broadway, Manhattan, New York, USA, 27.02.2019
2019 Spring Lecture Series, School of Architecture, Carnegie Melon University, College of Fine Arts, Pittsburgh, USA 25.02.2019
2019 School of Art, Architecture and Design, Indiana University, Columbus, Indiana, USA, 21.02.2019
2019 College of Design, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, USA, 20.02.2019
2019 Rural Studio/College of Architecture, Design and Construction, Auburn University, Newbern, Alabama, USA 18.02.2019
2019 Harrison Lecture Series, College of Architecture, Art and Design, Mississippi State University, Starkville, Mississippi, USA,15.02.2019
2019 Regnier International Lecture, A.P.Design Ekdahl Lecture Series, College of Architecture, Planning and Design, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA, 13.02.2019
2019 Public Lecture Series, Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA, 11.02.2019
2019 Spring Lecture Series, School of Architecture at Taliesin, Taliesin West, Phoenix, Arizona, USA, 07.02.2019
2016 Fast Forward Lecture Series, School of Architecture & Planning, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, 03.08.2016
2014 World Update Lecture – New Zealand, World Architecture Festival, Singapore, 01.10.2014
2012 NZIA Architecture Conference, Auckland, New Zealand, 17.2.2012
Selected Exhibitions:
2020 Taipei Design Awards Outstanding Works Achievement Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan 23.10.202 – 1.11.2020
2020 Sustainable Cities, Prague International Architecture Festival, Czech Republic
2018 “Being Finished is Finished”, Prague International Architecture Festival, “100 let českosolvenskě architectury”, Prague, Czech Republic 15.9.2018 - 14.10.2018
2018 “Being Finished is Finished”, Architecture Week, Yerevan, Armenia, 1.11.2018 - 1.12.2018
2017 Jeremy Smith and Chris Barton, Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes exhibition, School of Architecture and Planning, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand 7.9.2017 - 9.9.2017
2015 “Soft Context/Soft Architecture: 8 New Zealand Landscapes”, “Places” Exhibition, International Festival Architecture Week, Prague, 17.8.2015 – 18.10.2015
Selecting Judging:
2014, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020-2021 International Judge, World Architecture Festival, (Singapore, Berlin, Amsterdam, online)
2021 International Judge, Global Architecture & Design Awards, India
2020-2021 International Judge, World Architecture Festival, China
2021 International Judge, Muse Design Awards, New York
2021-2025 Ambassador of Playful Architect – The Children’s House in Prague Castle, Czech Republic
2020-2021 International Judge, Grand Award Jury, A’Design Awards, Italy
2019 International Judge, Indian Institute of Architects National Awards for Excellence in Architecture, Thiruvananthapuram, India.
2008, 2015 NZIA New Zealand Architecture Awards Judge
Academic Appointments:
2020- International Advisor, Saveetha College of Architecture and Design, Chennai, India
2020- University of Auckland, Adjunct Associate Professor
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Irving Smith Architects | http://www.isarchitects.nz/
Portfolio
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Te Whare Nui o Tuteata; SCION Timber Innovation Hub
Undertaken in collaboration with RTA Studio and Dunning Thornton, Te Whare Nui o Tuteata provides a welcome to our national SCION Timber Research Institute in Rotorua, New Zealand; an educational invitation to come “Walk in Our Forest” and learn new and sustainable ways of resourcing and building with timber.
The building achieves embodied carbon zero at end of construction, which includes raw material mining, manufacturing, transportation, and installation, and without any offsetting of carbon credits. -
Te Whare Nui o Tuteata; SCION Timber Innovation Hub
Te Whare Nui o Tuteata represents a real prototype, rather than just a possibility, for all future buildings and lays a marker on New Zealand’s journey to be carbon zero by 2050.
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Nelson School of Music
The Nelson School of Music, designed by Frederick de Jersey Clere as a teaching auditorium in 1895, may be one of the most protected buildings in New Zealand, but it has been refinished many times.
This new refinishing does something different; it looks to what is important. The auditorium is seismically strengthened but also re-acknowledged and fitted back to its community with the practice, recording, stage and audience spaces that a modern music school and performance venue requires. Further generations may now again look to the auditorium for inspiration before learning in the same greenrooms, practice and stage spaces as their heroes. -
12 Year House
12 years of getting ready and moving from farm to lifestyle.
12 Year House embeds to a narrow stretch of good ground, sheltering into the rocky spur and rural landscape. It then laps a wool-shed screen over a concrete spine to shape, lengthen and articulate an open plan to different types of visual and physical connections. There’s views up, out and down; grass, sea and tide. There’s a front, middle and back; hill, paddock and scrub. -
Bach with 2 roofs
Three small buildings and the spaces between provide a second home for a young family within a forest clearing overlooking Golden Bay. Two buildings are inhabited: the larger for the family, the smaller for friends or the kids, with peripheral decks to connect to the clearing and fly roofing to protect from the eucalypt trees and collect rainwater. The third building provides independent amenities to the external spaces which are controlled in volume by the placement of buildings within and to the edge of the clearing, allowing camping, friends, frisbee… Materials are chosen for their blending to the surrounding bush and dappled forest light.
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Trafalgar Centre Reinhabitation
Designed and constructed in the 1970’s, modified (by others) in the early 2000’s, and closed in 2014 due to significant seismic concerns, the Trafalgar Centre is Nelson’s primary indoor events centre.
ISA has guided seismic strengthening of existing buildings, an entry pavilion to complete the Northern edge and master-planning to configure the complex and Rutherford Park to address the recently developed Maitai Walkway. -
House with Villa Silhouette
A house after the quakes. One creative home comes down, another goes up, the new silhouetting the old, reminding, resettling. But where the villa sat square and inward, the new layers out across the southern view, shaping to the silhouette for light, and framing a greater appreciation of the everyday. Post quake, daily querks and small things have renewed interest : hanging a pot plant, drying a wetsuit, following cat-tracks… Life goes on, remaining (like Lyttleton) modest, informal, busy, and full of the same eclectic furniture and stories as before… but represented and ready for more.
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Mapua Park Structures
Following physical remediation of what the Minstry for Environment recognised as ‘NZ’s most contaminated site’, Irving Smith Jack Architects and Robin Simpson Design landscape architects collaborated to implement new park landscapes and shelters to socially remediate the site back to its community.
The park takes a progressive rather than retrospective approach, with an elemental design process of applying and linking surface components individually ordering, positioning and connecting the parks large central field, waterfront boardwalk and stepped amphitheatre and shelter buildings. -
offSET Shed House
From a context of accrued bach-esk dwellings in a south facing coastal surf community, a strategy of sequencing building sets (aka surf) was generated to scale new form to its surrounds. Building sets are then offset to allow seasonal living and circulation options for variations in wind and sun exposure.
Summer opens and invites in community; with diagonal movement connecting offset and shaded external spaces. Here living holds minimal interior use, with summer circulation defining informal house boundaries, and the control of sand. -
Alexandra Tent House
A house within a frontier environment and set to encourage freedom as a super-insulated and permanent tent within an inland southern New Zealand basin. A landscape of big sky and barren, open ground with extremes of temperature interchanging between winter permafrost and summer arid heat.
The house places an externally insulated concrete core, as ‘tent’, beneath a sheltering ‘fly’ to articulate light and scale.The wilderness remains unadorned and wild, fence free. -
Whakatane Library & Exhibition Centre
Library, museum and gallery facilities are placed within an abandoned large scale retail space, reinvented to provide meaningful and effective public architecture for the people of Whakatane.
Irving Smith Jack Architects won a design competition for this civic reinvention, with an architecture explored and subsequently developed through research and consideration of how an existing ‘big box’’ can be reconnected back to public use, and to encourage greater library participation within a Provincial community. -
NMIT Arts and Media Building
This building is a venue for arts teaching and exhibition and a tool to educate the NZ construction industry in creative structural timber use.
Laminated Veneer Timber (LVL) is used for all structural components, incorporating world first seismic engineering using post tensioned timber shear walls. All structural components are grown, milled and manufactured within an 80km “Radius of Source”. Sustainable passive approaches to daylighting, ventilation and shading combine with double glazing to reduce energy use.
