He was born in Melbourne, Australia. He studied architecture at the University
of Melbourne and at the Architectural Association of London, graduating
in 1974 and becoming the assistant of Elia Zenghelis and Rem Koolhaas the
following year.
He has held lectures and conferences in Berlin, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Barcelona,
Venice, Rotterdam, and elsewhere.
In 1980 he founded with his wife Julia B. Bolles-Wilson, the Wilson Partnership,
based in London. In 1989 the studio moved to Münster, Germany, with
the name Architekturbüro Bolles+Wilson which, in 2002, became Bolles+Wilson
GmbH & Co.
His most well-known projects include the Blackburn House in London (1988),
The Ninja, which won first prize in the Shinkenchiku competition in 1989,
the Suzuki House in Tokyo (1993), the Civic Library and Research Center
Technologiehof in Münster (1993), the bridge control tower of Wilhelminakade
and the Albeda College in Rotterdam (1998), the Brink Center in Hengelo
(1999), and the New Luxor Theater, again in Rotterdam, in 2001.