Stephen Bates

"Tent poles in the ground" is a collection of 21 texts by the famous architect Stephen Bates. They testifies to the importance of writing as part of a form of practice that includes building and teaching.

Tent Poles in the ground

This book investigates a particular kind of architecture that thrived in the 1950s in Cadaqués, a small Spanish fishing village on the Costa Brava. It explores a number of holiday houses built between the mid-1950s and 1960s by a group of architects who shared bonds of friendship and architectura...