Publisher: Quart, ISBN: 9783037613429, Format: Paperback, 180 x 130 mm, 312pp
Tent Poles in the ground is a collection of twenty-one texts by Stephen Bates. Like Papers (2001), Papers 2 (2007) and Papers 3 (2016), which were 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.
Stephen Bates leads the main London office of Sergison Bates. He is closely involved in the development of all projects from inception to completion. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1989 and gained professional experience in London and Barcelona. He has taught at a number of schools of architecture, including the Architectural Association in London.
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 30 years of practice. Like the making of buildings, thinking and writing about them, too, is always the result of a process of collaboration.