The present texts chronologically illustrate a thirty years journey through the different topographies of architecture. The title Berlin-Tokyo-Earth corresponds to an essay in which these two cities were described, whose ground surface had momentarily become the paradigm of the exceptional. Mass in the Age of Media is the subject on which many texts revolve around; the status of architecture as a physical object in the light of post-digital perception. This selection of writings by Peter Wilson comprises from the cultural vanguard of the AA in the Seventies –the oasis of hand drawing, where Wilson was one of the foremost exponent, to the more recent architectonic concepts such as ‘the diagram’ or ‘the evaporating city’. This panoramic anthology, with winks at Bachelard, from the modernist life style in the southern hemisphere to the picturesque, is an example of his empirical narrative style, empiricism that also characterises the architecture of BOLLES + WILSON, widely published and recognised since their first works.
