Flatey Church
Beginning in Reykjavik, these photographs are from a port to port circumnavigation of Iceland, in 2017. Several days were spent in the remote Westfjords region and its capital, Isafjordur, where there are a number of heritage buildings. Iceland’s vernacular housing was mostly made of timber and corrugated iron and dates from the eighteenth century despite there being over a thousand years of settlement. The earlier dwellings were turf houses but few remain in use, having been abandoned after the 1960’s. One which survives as a home, at least during the summer months, is Lindarbakki in East Iceland, an early twentieth century building.
The photographs of vernacular buildings were added to the Royal Institute of British Architects photographs collection, on my return.
