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Koolhaas. Countryside, A Report

25Edizione: IngleseDisponibilità: Disponibile
Dagli animali alla robotizzazione, dai cambiamenti climatici alle migrazioni, Rem Koolhaas presenta un nuovo progetto di collaborazione che esplora come il paesaggio, ovunque, si stia trasformando in modo irriconoscibile. Questo libro tascabile, che accompagna l'attesissima mostra al Guggenheim Museum di New York, raccoglie saggi approfonditi che spaziano da Fukushima ai Paesi Bassi, dalla Siberia all'Uganda: uno spaccato urgente di questo regno a lungo trascurato, che rivela il suo potenziale radicale di cambiamento del nostro modo di vivere.
Softcover with flaps3.9 x 6.3 in.0.77 lb352 pagine
Koolhaas. Countryside. A Report

Koolhaas. Countryside. A Report

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Koolhaas’s Countryside

An urgent exploration of a long-neglected realm and its sublime beauty

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.
Il designer

Irma Boom is a graphic designer specialized in making books. Since founding Irma Boom Office in 1990, she has worked with the likes of Chanel, the United Nations, OMA/Rem Koolhaas, Fondazione Prada, Pirelli, and Rijksmuseum Amsterdam. She received the Gutenberg Prize and the Johannes Vermeer Prize, the Dutch state prize for the arts, among others. Her work is in a permanent collection of the Design and Architecture Department of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Since 1992, Boom is a Senior Critic at Yale University in the USA.

Gli autori

AMO is the think tank of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), co-founded by Rem Koolhaas in 1999. Applying architectural thinking to domains beyond building, AMO has worked with Prada, the European Union, Universal Studios, Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport, Condé Nast, Harvard University, and the Hermitage. It has produced exhibitions, including Expansion and Neglect (2005) and When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013 (2013) at the Venice Biennale; The Gulf (2006), Cronocaos (2010), Public Works (2012), and Elements of Architecture (2014) at the Venice Architecture Biennale; and Serial Classics and Portable Classics (both 2015) at Fondazione Prada, Milan and Venice, respectively.

Rem Koolhaas is a co-founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Having worked as a journalist and scriptwriter before becoming an architect, in 1978 he published Delirious New York. His 1996 book S,M,L,XL summarized the work of OMA and established connections between contemporary society and architecture. Among many international awards, he has received the Pritzker Prize (2000) and the Praemium Imperiale (2003). 

I contributori

Harvard Graduate School of Design

The Beijing Central Academy of Fine Arts

The University of Nairobi

Wageningen University, the Netherlands

Koolhaas. Countryside, A Report
Softcover with flaps10 x 16 cm0.35 kg352 pagine

ISBN 978-3-8365-8331-2

Edizione: Inglese
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Edición de calidad

Beatriz,4 novembre 2021
A pesar de ser un libro de tapa blanda la edición y calidad están muy cuidadas. El ensayo es impecable, muy didáctico e interesante. Lo recomiendo.

Klein aber fein

Sabine,29 ottobre 2021
Koolhaas hat das Land entdeckt! Ein sehr interessanter kleiner Reader, der zurecht auf die Abhängigkeit der städtischen von ländlichen Räumen weltweit aufmerksam macht und verschiedenste neue Entwicklungen in ländlichen Räumen beleuchtet.

Rem forever!!

Andrea,27 ottobre 2021
A journey about countryside by Rem

Very thick but super interesting

Maria G.,27 ottobre 2021
It looks very dense, but you can read each article independently. So many interesting stories