The limits of architecture have deliberately been sought out, as have those of the magazine itself. To do so Bouman has worked with innovative designers with an editorial slant, as well as organising alternative forms of debate, worldwide.

In recent years the Archis Foundation has moved on from tending an architecture magazine to functioning as an active, agenda-setting think tank by way of magazine, consultancy and NGO.

Project founders: Ole Bouman, Rem Koolhaas, Mark Wigley

The VOLUME project continues ARCHIS, magazine for Architecture, City and Visual Culture and its predecessors since 1929. Volume magazine and Archis RSVP events form an experimental think tank devoted to the process of real-time spacial and cultural reflexivity. archis.org

Other protagonists in this project: AMO, a research and design studio that applies architectural thinking to disciplines beyond the borders of architecture and urbanism. AMO operates in tandem with its companion company the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

The Columbia Laboratory for Architectural Broadcasting, an experimental research unit devoted to the development of new forms of communication in architecture, set up as a semi-autonomous think and action tank at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University.