the tent book Stephen Bates: Tent Poles in the Ground – BAUTIER

the tent book Stephen Bates: Tent Poles in the Ground – BAUTIERA collection of twenty one texts by Stephen Bates. Written in collaboration with Jonathan Sergison, co founder of Sergison Bates architects, Tent poles testifies to the importance of writing as part of a form of practice that includes building and teaching. The reflections included are part of the process of developing and testing ideas in Sergison Batess London studio and in Stephen Batess teaching studio at the Chair of Urbanism and Housing, TU

A collection of twenty-one texts by Stephen Bates. Written in collaboration with Jonathan Sergison, co-founder of Sergison Bates architects, Tent poles testifies to the importance of writing as part of a form of practice that includes building and teaching. The reflections included are part of the process of developing and testing ideas in Sergison Bates’s London studio and in Stephen Bates’s teaching studio at the Chair of Urbanism and Housing, TU München. Covering a range of themes, from domesticity to the city, landscape and the design process, they record both the fundamental principles that inform his approach to architecture and the shifts in thinking that have come about in thirty years of practice.

While these are personal reflections on buildings and spaces, they were inspired by discussions across the table in the London studio, with teaching colleagues and students in Munich, and meetings with interesting people from different creative disciplines. Like the making of buildings, thinking and writing about them, too, is always the result of a process of collaboration.

• By Stephen Bates
• Published by Quart Verlag, 2025
• Soft cover, 316p. 130 x 180 mm