The title is that of an early essay describing two cities whose ground surface had momentarily become paradigmatic. Mass in the Age of Media is the theme around which many texts thematically hinge, the statusof architecture ùthe physical objectù in relation to post digitalperception. This selection of writings spans from the avant guardculture of the 1970's AA school ùthe Indian Summer of the hand drawnin which he was a leading exponentù to more recent architecturaltropes such as 'the diagram' or 'the evaporating city'. With sidewaysglances in the direction of Bachelard, lifestyle modernism in thesouthern hemispher and the Picturesque, this panoramic anthologyexpounds an empirical narrative style that also characterizes the much published architecture of BOLLES+WILSON.
