By Frédéric Schnee

Nicolas Schöffer’s Maison Spatiodynamique à Cloisons Invisibles.

by Michelle Fornabai

The fleeting fate and enduring potential of the slump test.

by Filip Tejchman

Encyclopedias, reference manuals and the codification of disciplinary expertise.

A conversation with Juan Herreros

An instrument to simplify the world.

by Isabelle Kirkham-Lewitt

The futility of a home that serves nobody and needs no one.

By Matthew Wisnioski and Kari Zacharias

Field notes from the arts research boom.

by Jennifer W. Leung

Research as a place apart.

An interview with Arindam Dutta

Architecture and the ‘Creative Economy.’

by Leah Meisterlin

How (not) to experiment in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world.

This bonus issue collects documentation of strange and significant laboratories in the history of research.

MISSION Research is everywhere. Architects incite action, design materials and archive cities. They capitalize upon the excess energy of practice to launch unsolicited experiments into the world, or sidestep clients by joining forces with government think tanks. Discussions from classrooms have found currency at town halls, and findings from construction sites have migrated into basement […]