Présentation de l'éditeur :
The pragmatic Anglo-Saxon method of competition (reliability, track
record, ability to get on with the client) is hardly the environment to
encourage creative young architects, or to give them the opportunity to
acquire the skills of their craft or the experience of developing and
testing ideas through construction.
It is no surprise therefore that
the young partnership of Jonathan Sergison and Stephen Bates
looks towards Europe for its inspiration.
These are architects not
interested in pursuing the spectacular, nor are they interested in
concentrating their energies in the evolution of strategies to win
commissions in the commercial market.
Instead they would like the
opportunity to practise architecture that has social relevance and
physical meaning. They are inspired by the European architecture of the
last 30 years (Rafael Moneo, Álvaro Siza, Eduardo Souto de Moura,
Herzog & de Meuron, Roger Diener), as well as a younger generation
of European contemporaries. Along with some of their London colleagues,
especially Tony Fretton and Caruso St John, they share a fascination
for the work of Peter and Alison Smithson.
Since setting up in practice together in the early 1990s, Sergison
Bates has carved out a distinctive, more European-style niche in the
UK. They are to be respected for their commitment to a rigorous way of
working and a challenging body of work. The achievement of this young
practice lies not with any singular work, rather in the fact that they
have accumulated both a convincing way of working and talking about
architecture and, as this monograph of 2G review testifies, a body of work to be admired.
Introduction:
Building with Presence by David Chipperfield
Works:
Public house, Walsall, UK
Studio offices, Clerkenwell, London, UK
Semi-detached houses, Stevenage, UK
Urban housing, Hackney, London, UK
Mixed-use development, Wandsworth, London, UK
Studio house, Bethnal Green, London, UK
Three school buildings, Bedfordshire, UK
Assisted self-build housing, Tilbury, UK
The Comfort of Strangeness by Adrian Forty
The Fragile Surface of Everyday Life, or, What Happened to Realism? by Philip Ursprung
Upper Lawn: The Invisible Restoration. A Conversation with Sergison Bates Peter Allison in discussion with Sergison Bates
Projects:
Cultural History Museum, Bornholms, Denmark
Industrial Design Department and Administration building, Kortrijk, Belgium
City library, Blankenberge, Belgium
Dramatic Arts and Audio-visual Department, Brussels, Belgium
Office building, Bronschhofen, Switzerland
Biography
nexus:
Resistance by Stephen Bates and Jonathan Sergison
Interview with Jonathan Sergison and Stephen Bates by Ellis Woodman
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