This special issue of Fabrications on “Networks and Flows,” provides an opportune moment to reflect upon some ongoing initiatives with respect to the historical theme of networking in architecture. In what follows we provide some perspective on the growing significance of this methodological shift towards understanding architecture in its regional and global capacity, especially as it has developed in the European academy over the past 5–10 years. This report focuses on the activities of a European Union collaborative known as “European Architecture Beyond Europe.” The collaborative was formed in 2010 and funded by the European Cooperation in Science and Technology programme (COST), and ran for 4 years up to May 2014. Referred to by COST as an “Action,” this collaborative was designed to establish a network of academic researchers from across the EU with common interests in the history of imperial, colonial and transnational architectures.1 Although the funded meetings and activities of the Action only lasted a short period of time, the creation of a specialist scholarly periodical ABE Journal (Architecture Beyond Europe) has since continued the Action’s agenda and sustained cooperation across a number of EU member states.2 An account and rationale of the Action’s formation and activities are given here, with a view to reiterating the importance of understanding networking and its consequences in architectural scholarship, and also how further exploration in this area continues to shape the future of research in colonial and post-colonial architecture and urbanism.3 This account is followed by three perspectives by each of the authors relating to their own experiences in this area of research.