The BMW Guggenheim Lab is a mobile laboratory that will travel to nine major cities worldwide over six years. Led by international, interdisciplinary teams of emerging talents in the areas of urbanism, architecture, art, design, science, technology, education, and sustainability, the BMW Guggenheim Lab will address issues of contemporary urban life through programs and public discourse. Its goal is the exploration of new ideas, experimentation, and ultimately the creation of forward-thinking solutions for urban life.
Over
the six-year migration of the BMW Guggenheim Lab, there will be three
distinct mobile structures and thematic cycles. Each structure will be
designed by a different architect, and each will travel to three cities
around the globe. The theme of the first two-year cycle of the BMW
Guggenheim Lab is Confronting Comfort,
exploring notions of individual and collective comfort and the urgent
need for environmental and social responsibility. Cycle 1 of the BMW
Guggenheim Lab launches in New York City from August 3 to October 16,
2011, before traveling to Berlin and a city in Asia, to be announced
later this year. Cycle 1 concludes with an exhibition presented at the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York in 2013. Two additional
two-year cycles will follow, each with a new mobile structure and theme,
concluding in the fall of 2016. Watch a video about the BMW Guggenheim Lab, and learn more about its mission and programs.
BMW Guggenheim Lab, Architects' model, New York City site. View from Houston Street, showing a workshop setting. Photo: courtesy Atelier Bow-Wow