Hinterland From the Metropolis: Deciphering AMO’s “Countryside, The Future”

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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 floor, littered with stickers, like a lunchbox, or a lid of a laptop. A thick pillar that pierces the internal atrium has become a garish advertising column. A bale of hay, a drone, and some other object (impossible to identify) levitate high overhead. A cardboard cutout of Joseph Stalin on robot wheels moves down the ramp, scaring off visitors. Big reflective letters say: “Countryside, The Future”.

Architect Rem Koolhaas, the founder of the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and Samir Bantal, director of OMA’s internal think-tank AMO, created this utterly confusing environment to exhibit years of research on the space beyond the boundaries of the 21st-century city.

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Cite: Kuba Snopek. "Hinterland From the Metropolis: Deciphering AMO’s “Countryside, The Future”" 03 Mar 2020. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/934709/hinterland-from-the-metropolis-deciphering-amos-countryside-the-future> ISSN 0719-8884

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