With more than half of the world’s population living in urban areas and that figure expected to climb to 70 or 80 percent by 2050, “Countryside, The Future” is as much an exploration as it is an ...

The Guggenheim’s current exhibition, “Countryside, The Future,” is based on a fundamentally silly premise: that after 40-plus years of primarily building in, and theorizing on, cities, which account ...

One morning last week, the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas was slowly turning in place in the center of the Guggenheim Museum’s rotunda, his face tilted up toward the sun-flooded glass roof. Suspended ...

The star-studded opening at New York's Guggenheim Museum in February was a glitzy kickoff for a thought-provoking exhibition, one with a few twists. It's a show at an art museum, with virtually no art ...

In 2007, when the United Nations announced that by 2050, 70% of the earth's human population would be living in cities, the world jumped to plan for an increasingly urban future. Soon after, however, ...

In the last eight months, events have proved the celebrated architect’s premise prescient. By focusing on cities, planners have missed propulsive changes in the hinterlands. Installation view of Rem ...

After spending decades devoted deconstructivism and an unapologetic sense of urbanity, Rem Koolhaas is switching things up. The Pritzker winner, widely regarded as one of the most influential figures ...

Legend has it that Chinese regional party leaders would create fake scenery, such as rice fields ready for harvest, for Chairman Mao to view during train voyages in order to feign his idyll. This is ...

As Rem Koolhaas explains in the introduction to this exhibition, over the last 20 years he had noticed changes in a Swiss village he often visited. In a “Rem” van Winkle mode he seemed to awaken ...

Entering the Guggenheim Museum, visitors find themselves surrounded by a feast of vivid colors and mismatched fonts. Passing the gigantic green tractor at the entrance, they move across the ground ...

The architect, a champion of cities, now turns a spotlight on the countryside in a sprawling new exhibition about the other 98 percent of the world. Rem Koolhaas at the Koppert Cress greenhouse in the ...