In 2010 the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum announced a six-year project with BMW to create what it called the BMW Guggenheim Lab – three 5,000 square feet architect-designed pop-up structures that would travel in consecutive cycles to three locations – one in the United States, one in Europe and one in Asia – spending three months in each place. At every stop Guggenheim curators would invite leaders in the fields of architecture, art, science, design, technology and education to participate in programs relating to the problems of urban living. The first lab, which opened on a vacant lot in Manhattan’s East Village in 2011, attracted more than 54,000 visitors before going on to Berlin and...
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