Research Catalog

Title

Countryside : a report / AMO ; Rem Koolhaas.

Author

Koolhaas, Rem,

Publication

Köln : Taschen, 2020.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Arc en rêve centre d'architecture, host institution.
• Office for Metropolitan Architecture, sponsoring body.
• Office for Metropolitan Architecture. AMO, sponsoring body.
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, host institution.

Description

351 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, portraits; 16 cm

Summary

The rural, remote, and wild territories we call "countryside", or the 98% of the earth's surface not occupied by cities, make up the front line where today's most powerful forces--climate and ecological devastation, migration, tech, demographic lurches--are playing out. Increasingly under a 'Cartesian' regime--gridded, mechanized, and optimized for maximal production--these sites are changing beyond recognition. In his latest publication, Rem Koolhaas explores the rapid and often hidden transformations underway across the Earth's vast non-urban areas. Countryside, A Report gathers travelogue essays exploring territories marked by global forces and experimentation at the edge of our consciousness: a test site near Fukushima, where the robots that will maintain Japan's infrastructure and agriculture are tested; a greenhouse city in the Netherlands that may be the origin for the cosmology of today's countryside; the rapidly thawing permafrost of Central Siberia, a region wrestling with the possibility of relocation; refugees populating dying villages in the German countryside and intersecting with climate change activists; habituated mountain gorillas confronting humans on 'their' territory in Uganda; the American Midwest, where industrial-scale farming operations are coming to grips with regenerative agriculture; and Chinese villages transformed into all-in-one factory, e-commerce stores, and fulfillment centers. This book is the official companion to the Guggenheim Museum exhibition Countryside, The Future. The exhibition and book mark a new area of investigation for architect and urbanist Rem Koolhaas, who launched his career with two city-centric entities: The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (1975) and Delirious New York (1978). It's designed by Irma Boom, who drew inspiration for the book's pocket-sized concept, as well as its innovative typography and layout, from her research in the Vatican library. The book brings together collaborative research by AMO, Koolhaas, and students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design; the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Wageningen University in the Netherlands; and the University of Nairobi. Contributors also include Samir Bantal, Janna Bystrykh, Troy Conrad Therrien, Lenora Ditzler, Clemens Driessen, Alexandra Kharitonova, Keigo Kobayashi, Niklas Maak, Etta Madete, Federico Martelli, Ingo Niermann, Dr. Linda Nkatha Gichuyia, Kayoko Ota, Stephan Petermann, and Anne M. Schneider.

Subject

• Agricultural innovations > Exhibitions
• Agricultural innovations
• Economic history > Exhibitions
• Economic history
• Information technology > Exhibitions
• Information technology
• Landscape architecture > Exhibitions
• Landscape architecture
• Landschaftsbild
• Landschapsarchitectuur
• Ländlicher Raum
• Robotics > Exhibitions
• Robotics
• Rural conditions > Exhibitions
• Rural conditions
• Social change > Exhibitions
• Social change

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs.
• Tentoonstellingen (vorm)

Note

• Cover title.
• "Countryside in your pocket!"--Cover.
• "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Countryside, The Future, held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, February 20 to August 14, 2020, and traveling to Arc en rêve centre d'architecture, Bordeaux in October 2020"--Back cover flap.

Contents

Ignored realm / Rem Koolhaas -- Director's foreword / Richard Armstrong -- Along for the ride / Troy Conrad Therrien -- Eurodrive: Repopulation utopia / Niklas Maak -- Rif revisited / Samir Bantal -- Great plan for the transformation of nature / Alexandra Kharitonova -- Future food / Louise Fresco interviewed by Rem Koolhaas -- Food insecurity / Samir Bantal -- Ocha: African avant garde / Dr. Linda Nkatha Gichuyia & Etta Madete -- Botscape / Keigo Kobayashi -- Sea lovers / Ingo Niermann -- Villages with Chinese characteristics / Stephan Petermann -- Thaw / Janna Bystrykh -- Gorilla politics / Johannes Refisch interviewed by Niklas Maak & Rem Koolhaas -- Gorilla Theory / Niklas Maak -- Off-(Jefferson's) grid / Anne M. Schneider -- Industrial farming blues / Janna Bystrykh -- Buying = saving / Federico Martelli, Cookies -- TRIC: Post-human architecture / Rem Koolhaas -- Descartes was here / Clemens Driessen -- Pixel farming / Lenora Ditzler -- ? / Rem Koolhaas.

Call Number

SB469.75

ISBN

• 3836584395
• 9783836584395
• 9783836583312
• 3836583313

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries