The merry-go-round of the muses. Interview with Sebastián Irarrázaval

Abstract

This interview took place thanks to the Milan International Architecture Workshop (MIAW) held at the Polytechnic Institute of Milan in February 2021 and dedicated to reflections on Milan’s Porta Romana. The many lessons and conversations with Irarrázaval gave rise to the idea of an interview that could summarize the numerous issues that emerged and whose relevance to the relationship between art and architecture naturally led to it being published in this issue. The interview touches on numerous themes that tend, as often happens in projects, to overlap each other. However, in the flow of this conversation, three principles with a more disruptive force emerge: translation, repetition, and wholeness. Three concepts that in their recurrence in every artistic process help to trace and describe the importance that the arts have had in the construction of the architectural language of Sebastián Irarrázaval.

Keywords

• architettura cilena
• traduzione
• ripetizione
• totalità