Bedtime Stories for Architects

ISBN-13: 9783906946344 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023 / 320 str.

Peter Wilson

Opis

Bedtime Stories for Architects, is a compendium of texts, built works and graphic work by Peter Wilson. It offers glimpses of buildings by the German based office of BOLLES+WILSON, but it is not a monograph, it presents a cloud of discursive subjects and narratives, evidencing Wilsonâs take on a wide range of academic, technical, cultural, and architectural issues. It has been called âtremendously cutting-edgeâ, perhaps because of the wry humor of the stories and Wilsonâs witty and intelligent drawings â these extend to satirical portraits of â bankers, estate agents, property developers and a few OK people. Much of the book is organized alphabetically like a childrenâs book â A is for Albania, C is for Counterfactual Histories, G is for Guggenheim, M is for Malevich, O is for Olgiati, R is for Ritual. Counterfactual Histories (a concept from Borges) are paint-shop illustrated as surprising, poetic and enigmatic landscapes. âA Blue Reviewâ deconstructs a book on colour in architecture. Between the enigmatic graphic works are longer texts including Wilsonâs extensive analysis of Studio Mumbai (first published in El Croquis), a longer investigation of the Swiss architect Valerio Olgiati and a history of Modernism in Wilsonâs home country Australia.