
FUTURES MARKET
“COUNTRYSIDE, THE FUTURE” opened at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum on February 20, 2020. On March 13, the show prematurely closed, joining the ranks of exhibitions and public events interrupted by the spread of Covid-19. Organized by Rem Koolhaas, Troy Conrad Therrien, Samir Bantal, and an army of collaborators, the expansive exhibition is dedicated to the “radical changes” ostensibly taking place in “rural, remote, and wild territories . . . or the 98% of the Earth’s surface not occupied by cities.” Framed as a corrective to architects’ enduring habit of privileging the urban, the show