![]() ![]() It was one of the themes of his recent exhibition at the Guggenheim, “Countryside,” which looked at the curious disregard and abandonment of the more rural parts of the planet. The serpentine layout that herds passengers through a mazelike mall creates almost a “permanent sense of crowding,” he notes, “with much less freedom to make our own choices and to maintain our own distances.” ![]() ![]() “You are basically almost forced to enter the bowels of a mostly financial configuration in order to be exposed to the maximum amount of shopping,” he says. “Arrivals, luggage, customs, blah blah blah.”īut airports now are made up of what he has named junk space. The process, in his mind, used to be very logical. “Airports used to be highly rationalized spaces that simply served to take you efficiently from one place to the plane,” Koolhaas says on a landline from his office in Rotterdam. Koolhaas’ beef with airports is that they’ve lost their sense of purpose. It’s not the same beef that everyone else has with airports–the Cinnabon smell, the brusqueness of security, the $7 snack. Rem Koolhaas, the Pritzker prize–winning Dutch architect, author and academic, has long had a beef with airports. ![]()
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