Just published!
Tent poles in the ground is a collection of twenty-one texts by Stephen Bates. Like the three-volume collection of Papers (2001, 2007, 2016) written with Jonathan Sergison, Tent poles testifies to the importance of writing as part of a form of practice that includes building and teaching.
The texts included are part of the process of developing and testing ideas in the London studio and at the Chair of Urbanism and Housing at TU München. Covering a range of themes, from domesticity to the city and the inescapable challenges of designing sustainably in a climate crisis, they record both the fundamental principles that inform an approach to architecture and the shifts in thinking that have come about in thirty years of practice.
Paperback, 18 x 13 cm
314 pages
Luzern: Quart Verlag, 2025
ISBN 978-3-03761-291-0
BOOK TOUR
Tuesday 13 May, 7pm: Hochparterre Bookshop, Zurich more here ↗
Wednesday 14 May, 6pm: Accademia di Architettura, Mendrisio more here ↗
Thursday 15 May, 7pm: Galleria Spazio, Milano more here ↗
Tuesday 20 May, 7.30pm: Centre Obert d'Arquitectura, Barcelona more here ↗