Stephen Bates is a founding partner of Sergison Bates architects.

Established in 1996, the practice was awarded the Heinrich Tessenow Gold Medal and the Erich Schelling Medal for Architecture in 2006 and their projects have won numerous international awards.

He has taught at a number of schools of architecture, among them the AA, ETH Zurich, EPFL Lausanne, the Oslo School of Architecture, ETSAB Barcelona and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is currently Professor of Urbanism and Housing at TU München.