Rem Koolhaas's exhibition exploring the countryside at New York's Guggenheim museum aims "to put the countryside on the agenda again".
Koolhaas developed the Countryside, The Future exhibit with his research studio AMO, its director Samir Bantalm and a series of collaborators. The aim is to highlight advancements in rural areas through a series of case studies.

"This show has nothing to do with art, nothing to do with architecture," said the Dutch architect when presenting the exhibit this week.
"It's a show about sociality, anthropology and politics."
Koolhaas' talk took place in the Guggenheim's lecture theatre ahead of the exhibit's opening, which marks 40 years since he launched his city-focused book Delirious New York in the same space, and a drastic switch in topics.
He said he chose to move his focus away from cities as the "massive neglect of the countryside" had made him "nervous" and "dissatisfied" in the past 10 years. The Guggenheim exhibit aims to rectify this.
"This show's explicit agenda is to put the countryside on the agenda again," he said.

Koolhaas had previously spoken about his concerns in a 2013 video interview with Dezeen, in which he said that the attention of his firm OMA had shifted away from "cliche" cities to non-urban areas.
He later argued in a 2017 interview that the neglect of rural areas contributed to the election of Donald Trump as US president.
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