Samir Bantal is the director of AMO, the think- tank founded by Rem Koolhaas in 1998, which enables OMA to apply its architectural thinking beyond architecture. In 2020, Samir Bantal, together with Rem Koolhaas presented their research project Countryside: the Future at the Guggenheim Museum in New York. Samir collaborates with Virgil Abloh on a number of projects.