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...

The original bald and unconvincing narrative that triggered this book is that put about by Alison and Peter Smithson in their 1981 Heroic Period of Modern Architecture, limiting modernism to 1915â1929. This fiction is re-contextualized with studies of iconic Bauhaus bald heads â Schlemmer, Itten, etc., such Literal Baldness is the subject of Part 1.

Part 2 of Phenomenal Baldness unwinds the Bauhaus narrative put about by Walter Gropius, one that has held water for 100 years. Spin doctor Gropius manipulated his Bauhaus successes into a cornerstone of post WW2 modernism. Cracks in...