Prof. Stephen Bates
Born in 1964, Stephen Bates graduated from the Royal College of Art 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.
He has taught at a number of schools of architecture, including the Architectural Association in London, was Visiting Professor at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale in Lausanne (EPFL), the Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura (ESARQ) and the Universidad Internacional de Catalunya (UIC/ETSAB) in Barcelona, the Oslo School of Architecture, the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and the University of Antwerp. Since 2009 he has been Professor of Urbanism and Housing at the Technische Universität in Munich together with Bruno Krucker.
He has been a member of various Design Review Panels in London and has served on many international architectural competition juries, including the Iberian Premis FAD, the Stirling Prize in the UK, the Belgian Prize for Architecture, was President of the jury for the 2017 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture - Mies van der Rohe Award and the Institut Balear de l'Habitatge (IBAVI).
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, responsive to the challenges of environmental, economic and social sustainability.
He is a member of Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), the Belgian Orde van Architecten and the Bayerische Architektenkammer.
Courtyard housing Lavender Hill, London (Photograph Johan Dehlin)
Harbour Building, Antwerp (Photograph Stijn Bollaert)
KANAL Museum of Contemporary Art and Architecture Museum, Brussels
(Image Secchi Smith)
Urban Quarter Tour and Taxis, Brussels (Photograph Stijn Bollaert)
Mansion Block, Hampstead (Photograph Johan Dehlin)
East Flanders Provincial Government Buildings, Ghent (Photograph Stijn Bollaert)
Performing Arts Quarter, Leuven (Image Secchi Smith)
Upper Lawn Pavilion, Wiltshire, Alison and Peter Smithson (Photograph Ian Cartlidge)
Mixed use building Mönckebergstrasse, Hamburg (Image_Secchi_Smith)
