Stephen Bates
Berkshire, 1964
Born in 1964, Stephen Batesgraduated from the Royal College ofArt in 1989 and gained professional experience in London and Barcelona before establishing Sergison Bates architects in 1996 together with Jonathan Sergison. Over the last two decades the practice has won a number of prestigious commissions and awards – among them the Erich Schelling Prize and Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal – and established new studios in Zurich and Brussels.
Stephen has taught at the Architectural Association and been Visiting Professor at ETH Zurich, EPF Lausanne, ETSAB Barcelona, the Oslo School of...
Born in 1964, Stephen Batesgraduated from the Royal College ofArt in 1989 and gained professional experience in London and Barcelona before establishing Sergison Bates architects in 1996 together with Jonathan Sergison. Over the last two decades the practice has won a number of prestigious commissions and awards – among them the Erich Schelling Prize and Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal – and established new studios in Zurich and Brussels.
Stephen has taught at the Architectural Association and been Visiting Professor at ETH Zurich, EPF Lausanne, ETSAB Barcelona, the Oslo School of Architecture, University of Antwerp and GSD Harvard. Since 2009 he has been Professor of Urbanism and Housing at TU München. He has also served on many international architectural competition juries, including the Iberian Premis FAD, the Stirling Prize in the UK, the Belgian Prize for Architecture and as President of the jury for the 2017 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award.
Through his work in practice and his teaching he has explored the role of architecture at all scales, from city-making to domesticity, designing buildings that are rooted in place, engaged with the historical dimension of existing urban fabric and responsive to the challenges of environmental, economic and social sustainability.
