2 January 1944 – 3 January 2023
Jeremy Salmond passed away peacefully in Auckland on the third of January 2023, a day after his 79th birthday.
Jeremy was a friend and mentor of, and collaborator with, many architects around Aotearoa. He was, to many, the most respected conservation architect in the country, having literally written the book on old New Zealand houses. He was the founding director of Salmond Reed Architects and, in 2007, was awarded the Queen’s Service Order (QSO) for his contribution to the preservation of New Zealand’s heritage of significant buildings. In 2018, Te Kāhui Whaihanga New Zealand Institute of Architects recognised his towering contribution to our built environment with the NZIA Gold Medal – an award for which he was grateful but, simultaneously, incredulous to receive. Such
