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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 countryside used to signify an escape from the city, but OMA’s Rem Koolhaas wants people to take a good look at ruralism to get a sharper view of the world. In February, the Office for ...

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 ...

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, ...

After a four-year journey filming Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas across the world, Tomas Koolhaas has made a new film about his father titled Rem. The documentary offers a close-up of the architect just ...

Renowned architect and urbanist Rem Koolhaas has spent much of his career hopping from “one site of urban density to another,” says Troy Conrad Therrien, the Guggenheim Museum’s architecture curator.

When you abandon the countryside in favour of the city, what do you leave behind? In a recent essay for Icon Magazine, OMA co-founder Rem Koolhaas deliberates on the intersection between the two, ...