Dune House, Leigh, 2021.
Photography: Simon Wilson
Architects Lance and Nicola Herbst design poetic buildings that lean into summer ease.
Lance and Nicola Herbst came to New Zealand as well-taught architects, but migration made them autodidacts. Of course they were familiar with architecture's universal principles, but they didn't know about the local particulars. They weren't steeped in the precedents of what architect and critic David Mitchell called New Zealand architecture's ‘carpenter tradition’. The upside? “We had no baggage,” Nicola says. “We weren't constrained by preconceptions of how things should and shouldn't be done.”
