Unfinished and Far Far Away, The Architecture of Irving Smith Architects

Irving Smith Architects builds with the land, not on it. The practice's projects open up, condense, focus, and interpret both the natural and human-made settings of their home base of New Zealand, a land far, far away. Edited by Aaron Betsky, the volume traces the architects' approach of participating with existing landscapes before generating new contexts. Ten projects across a range of scales, typologies, and landscapes show how they articulate wood an other local materials in their work. Ten essays by architects, critics, and educators further a discussion on global peripheries and how architecture benefits from the continued study and interpretation of contexts.