[1] Sergison Bates architects are best known for their residential buildings but have also realised public and institutional projects in the UK, continental Europe and China.
[5] The group (informally called Papers on architecture) had a common interest in the urban character of London and the work of Alison and Peter Smithson.
[7] A number of other small scale projects, primarily in London, followed, which also displayed an interest in creating a robust architectural expression through the use of lightweight low-tech construction methods (i.e. thin brick-slip façade panels on the Studio house in Bethnal Green and cement boards as cladding for a timber panel structure in the self-build housing project in Tilbury).
[8] The unrealised competition design for a museum on the Danish island Bornholm (included in “Brick-work”) indicated a shift towards a more heavy and monolithic construction form and spatial expression.
In 2016 the firm completed their most prestigious building to date, the Welcome centre and offices for the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research in Shanghai (China).
In addition to their built work, Sergison Bates have produced a significant output of texts, either co-written or authored independently.