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.
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