Koolhaas. Countryside, A Report - Couverture souple

Armstrong, Richard; Therrien, Troy Conrad

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3836583313 ISBN 13 : 9783836583312

Editeur : TASCHEN, 2020

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

À propos des auteurs : AMO est le think-tank de l'Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), cofondé par Rem Koolhaas en 1999. Appliquant la réflexion architecturale à des domaines autres que la construction, l'AMO a travaillé avec Prada, l'Union européenne, les studios Universal, l'aéroport Schiphol d'Amsterdam, Condé Nast, l'université de Harvard et The Hermitage. Le groupe est à l'origine d'expositions, comme Expansion and Neglect (2005) et When Attitudes Become Form : Berne 1969/Venise 2013 (2013) à la Biennale de Venise; The Gulf (2006), Cronocaos (2010), Public Works (2012), et Elements of Architecture (2014) à la Biennale d'architecture de Venise; ou encore Serial Classics et Portable Classics (toutes deux en 2015) à la Fondation Prada, respectivement à Milan et à Venise.

Rem Koolhaas est l'un des fondateurs de l'Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Initialement journaliste et scénariste avant d'embrasser la carrière d'architecte, il a publié Delirious New York en 1978. Son ouvrage S,M,L,XL, réalisé en 1996, résume le travail de l'OMA et établit un rapport entre la société contemporaine et l'architecture. Parmi de nombreuses autres distinctions internationales, il a reçu le prix Pritzker en 2000 et le Praemium Imperiale en 2003. Il a dirigé la Biennale d'architecture de Venise en 2014, alors que paraissait pour la première fois Elements of Architecture.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: TASCHEN
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3836583313
• ISBN 13: 9783836583312
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 351
• Coordonnées du fabricant: TASCHEN GmbH; contact@taschen.com; ; Hohenzollernring 53. D; K�ln; 50672; Allemagne