Jeremy is Design Director of Irving Smith Architects, a research-based design practice working in sensitive environments throughout Aotearoa New Zealand and abroad. The practice has won a string of international awards, including both the Timber Prize and Higher Education and Research at WAF 2020-2021, and Villa at WAF Berlin 2017. Other accolades include The 2024 Most Beautiful, Innovative and Iconic Building at the Dubai International Best Practices Award for Sustainable Development, United Nations World Governments Summit, UAE, the 2021 Indo-Pacific region’s INDE The Building Award, a 2021 Eurasian International Architecture Laureate, a 2021 Best of the Best Masterprize for Green Buildings, the 2021 Architizer Architecture+Wood Award, the Judges Special Award at the 2020 Taipei International Design Awards, a 2019 UNESCO Asia-Pacific Cultural Heritage Award of Distinction, multiple New Zealand Architecture Awards in public, residential and commercial categories, and three times representing New Zealand at the Prague International Architecture Festival, where their Soft Context : Soft Architecture exhibitions presented an approach of participating with existing landscapes before generating new contexts. 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. Jeremy writes for Architecture New Zealand, has judged national architecture awards in New Zealand and India, and at World Architecture Festivals in Singapore, Berlin, Amsterdam, Lisbon and Miami, and continues to regularly lecture at conferences and universities around the world. He was the 2023 John G Williams Distinguished Visiting Practitioner in Architecture at the Fay Jones School of Architecture and Design at the University of Arkansas in America, is an Adjunct Professor at Te Kura Matatini ki Otago, Aotearoa New Zealand’s newest architecture school, and at the University of the Free State in South Africa, an International Advisor to the Saveetha College of Architecture and Design in Chennai, India, and teaches iterative design studios at Masters-level at the University of Auckland where he was formerly an Adjunct Associate Professor and undertook a design-based PhD. American critic Aaron Betsky has recently completed a book on the work, teaching and research of Irving Smith Architects entitled “Unfinished and Far Far Away.”