This issue of Materia Arquitectura focuses on radical design strategies and explores their implications in the configuration of material culture. Guest editor Ernesto Silva argues that design strategies are fundamental elements in the generation of a project. The issue's interviewee, Juan Herreros, agrees, stressing that working strategies are an important part of the design process and are themselves the subject of a project. The six articles in the dossier present a series of critical cases, ranging from disciplinary pedagogical reviews to artistic practices located at the limits of architectural production. Beatriz Colomina and her team explore a series of pedagogical experiments that questioned the foundations of architecture and played a crucial role in shaping the disciplinary discourse in the second half of the twentieth century. Emanuel Admassu analyzes an Ethiopian market where the urban population develops radical design strategies to resist the violence of inequality. Philippe Rahm proposes using quantifiable scientific knowledge to strip architecture of its narrative superstructures, erasing subjectivities and giving way to a new objectivity of space. Petra Blaisse, in turn, develops a manifesto of concepts that operate on the periphery of the discipline. Pedro Ignacio Alonso proposes a revision of Malevich's architects, pointing out that they are models with a profoundly revolutionary sense, whose purpose would be to destroy the existing society through the destruction of its architecture. Finally, based on the work of Gordon Matta-Clark, Marcelo López-Dinardi discusses strategies related to undoing that would make it possible to remove the docility of disciplinary knowledge.

Guest Editor Ernesto Silva