Countryside, A Report

by AMO, Rem Koolhaas

From animals to robotization, climate change to migration, Rem Koolhaas presents a new collaborative project exploring how countryside everywhere is transforming beyond recognition. The official companion to the highly anticipated exhibition at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, this pocketbook gathers in-depth essays spanning from Fukushima to the Netherlands, Siberia to Uganda—an urgent dispatch from this long-neglected realm, revealing its radical potential for changing everything about how we live.

Genres: Architecture, Nonfiction

352 pages, Paperback

Published July 24, 2020

About the author

AMO, a research and design studio, applies architectural thinking to domains beyond.

AMO often works in parallel with OMA's clients to fertilize architecture with intelligence from this array of disciplines. This is the case with Prada: AMO's research into identity, in-store technology, and new possibilities of content-production in fashion helped generate OMA's architectural designs for new Prada epicenter stores in New York and Los Angeles. In 2004, AMO was commissioned by the European Union to study its visual communication, and designed a coloured "barcode" flag – combining the flags of all member states – that was used during the Austrian presidency of the EU.

Reviews

[Beli ⭐️ · Rating 4 out of 5]

Súper recomendable. No he encontrado lo que específicamente estaba buscando pero la intención y las reflexiones del libro son algo que me llevo para mis proyectos futuro.

[Donald · Rating 5 out of 5]

The transformation of the planet, reported on the ground from France to China, from Africa to North Dakota. Climate, migration, all of it - from the macro to the micro. So much packed into a pocket-size, the photography deserves a larger format. Sorry to miss the Guggenheim Exhibit.

[Erik Wirfs-Brock · Rating 4 out of 5]

Super interesting, an account of various experiences of rural areas and various agricultural projects. Being a supplement to a museum exhibition some of the articles are too brief, and this tiny book isn't the best way to view the photography, I only wish the book was twice as long.

[Milian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Exhibition.
Great reports.

[Tess · Rating 5 out of 5]

Extremely interesting

[Hugopimenta · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interessante ensaio sobre o impacto da visão arquitectónica e politica no mundo rural em diversas geografias e eras! Muito recomendável!

[Livio · Rating 4 out of 5]

Insightful

[Chris Muratti · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just an all around genius exploration of this forgotten majority of our planet.

Filled with so many deeply interesting and provocative passages, but "?" really stood out to me as the sort of capstone of this book; totally epic and a perfect rumination on the themes and ideas of this collection of work. One of my favorite things I've seen from him as of yet.

Also just need to give a moment for the design of this book. Absolute perfection.

This really just, to me, pushes the boundaries of what we are thinking of as architecture and really highlights what is important and relevant in spatial design at this point in time.

[Artur Llinares · Rating 5 out of 5]

Como estudiante de antropología, este tipo de libros van muy bien porque sintetizan un gran número de proyectos importantes que se están realizando de modos muy distintos en lugares y momentos muy diversos.
Un libro de bolsillo con la excelente edición de TASCHEN.