This issue of Materia Arquitectura focuses on two fundamental instances of architectural production: the workshop and the office. Guest editor Claudio Palavecino proposes to examine these two spaces from three dimensions: place, agent and production. The interviewees in this issue, Amale Andraos and Dan Wood, analyse their office as a subject of dialogue that allows them to think and make architecture "in the world". Meanwhile, the dossier articles explore the workshop and the office as producers of knowledge. Emmanuel Petit approaches the workshop as a space of theory, highlighting five characteristics that make it a specific creative generator. Through an editorial strategy, Ernesto Silva and Rayna Razmilic articulate a dialogue between Pier Vittorio Aureli and Bernard Tschumi, highlighting what underlies their academic and professional practices. Esteban de Backer analyses the modes of production of three world-renowned offices and proposes a reconceptualisation of the ideas of efficiency and pragmatism. In turn, José Sánchez argues that discrete architecture and video games could help communicate the challenges facing architecture as an agent of social progress. Tamao Hashimoto describes a workshop that identified the polyrhythmic aspects of everyday life by implementing a notation system that does not conceive the world of objects, the world of movement and the world of events as different "landscapes". Finally, Esteban Salcedo examines a series of offices that, leaving aside the motivation of traditional productive work and linking themselves to the world of art, end up generating advances within the discipline.

Guest Editor Claudio Palavecino