For many, architecture is a service whose goal is building; but for others, it is a field of intellectual research and method of inquiry. The book contains reproductions of ephemera from over 20 research organizations developed by architects between 1968 and 2011. A wealth of ideas and approaches to archi- tectural thinking are neatly explicated in captions accompanying each section and augmented in brief essays by international architects, theorists, teachers, writers and curators. Among the organizations featured are Rem Koolhaus s AMO, Art Net, Global Tools, MIT s Architecture Machine Group, Eyal Weizman s Forensic Architecture, ARAU, Design-A-Thon, Delos Symposium, Anyone Corp and CIRCO. This publication describes the rich life of architecture beyond building as thinking process, method and research tool. Contributions by: Florencia Alvarez, Pepe Avilés, Greg Barton, Samuel Dodd, Isabelle Doucet, Ole W. Fischer, Anna Foppiano, Kim Förster, Larissa Harris, Owen Hatherley, Alison B. Hirsch, Douglas Moffat, Whitney Moon, Peirluigi Nicolin, Kayoko Ota, Panayiota Pyla, Angela Rui, Deane Simpson, Johanne Sloan, Molly Wright Steenson, Rebecca Taylor, and Mirko Zardini.