https://falsemirroroffice.com false Tue, 17 Aug 2021 11:41:35 +0000 https://falsemirroroffice.com en https://falsemirroroffice.com/impressum Sun, 10 Dec 2017 16:59:54 +0000 false https://falsemirroroffice.com/impressum <img width="1614" height="235" width_o="1614" height_o="235" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/570d8e0713df5d34d3923bb27118723bc3e8089b2a5128a56a2dcb1fcb73a774/FMO_logo-w.png" data-mid="63727006" border="0" data-scale="64" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/570d8e0713df5d34d3923bb27118723bc3e8089b2a5128a56a2dcb1fcb73a774/FMO_logo-w.png" /> ︎&nbsp;︎&nbsp;︎ https://falsemirroroffice.com/ABOUT Fri, 17 Feb 2017 16:59:28 +0000 false https://falsemirroroffice.com/ABOUT <img width="850" height="90" width_o="850" height_o="90" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/13255b922354755854a27bd0105b547be548990d1d0c42912002dee37bcdfdfe/170529_FMO_logo.jpg" data-mid="7201128" border="0" data-no-zoom src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/850/i/13255b922354755854a27bd0105b547be548990d1d0c42912002dee37bcdfdfe/170529_FMO_logo.jpg" /> ︎ false mirror office gathers five architects who share an interest in project and research:&nbsp;Andrea Anselmo, Gloria Castellini, Filippo Fanciotti, Giovanni Glorialanza and Boris Hamzeian. Brought together at the Polytechnic School of Genoa, they have been collaborating remotely from different countries since the group’s founding. Believing that new only originates as a reaction to the existing, false mirror office re-discovers the past as the present, re-signifies high as mass culture, re-values forms and functions.As a matter of fact, false mirror office mis-represents Architecture. ︎ false mirror office has been featured in several books, magazines and websites: ”E13 Results: Interview to False Mirror Office” on Europan Europe website 2015 DivisareFalse Mirror Office “Foretaste” Divisare Book #112, September 2017 - ISSN 2532-523Xarkitektur.noSky ARTE PoliniceVilla, Riccardo M. “Botanica delle Immagini” in&nbsp;GIZMO&nbsp;REMIX, 2020Venturini, Giampiero. “Atlas of Emerging Practices: Being an Architect in the 21st Century” Itinerant Office &amp; New Generations 2019 CARNETS, Architecture Is Just a Pretext, anteferma 2019 - ISBN 978-88-32050-47-9 Play City, viceversa magazine, 2019 Prati,&nbsp;Carlo. "Nuovi Disegno D’architettura Italiano. La Centralità Ritrovata” Macro Asilo, 2018Belgian newspaper&nbsp;Le SoirCattin, N. D. “Collective Processes Counterpractices in European Architecture”,&nbsp;Birkhäuser 2021 - ISBN&nbsp;9783035624700 ︎ meet us in Bruxelles, Florence,&nbsp;Genoa, Lausanne and&nbsp;Paris like us on facebook, love us on instagramcontact us at falsemirroroffice@gmail.com https://falsemirroroffice.com/RESEARCH Wed, 25 Sep 2019 11:09:39 +0000 false https://falsemirroroffice.com/RESEARCH RESEARCH Ceci n’est pas une ville installation Réappropriations, Louvain-la-Neuve BE 2023 Unidentified Flying Object book Italian Council | Italian Ministry of Culture | Actar Publishers 2022Station To Station research Parco Culturale Altalanga | Banca Del Fare 2021The Architect’s Dream research Belgian Pavilion, Venice IT 2021 This is not a SILO exhibition NUDGE 2.0 | Antilia Gallery 2021Otiarium exhibition TNDL, SUPERATTICO, Milano IT 2020-22Assemblaggio come testo figurativo essay pianoB - Arti e Culture Visive 2020 Home sweet world! interview Architektura &amp; Biznes 2020 Conversation Pit article CDC - Circolo del Design, Torino IT 2020 Towards a new domestic habitat article GUD#2 Conclusus | Stefano Termanini Editore 2020The Towers of Bovisa installation Repubblica del Design | Fuorisalone 2019, Milano IT 2019 Fetonte exhibition caarpa | UNO8A, Genova IT 2019 Play City article Viceversa Mag 2019Crime and Ornament installation 12 Walls, Vezprém HU 2018 Piotrkowskissima installation OSSA 2018 workshop, Łódź PL 2018 Tales from the Archipelago research Regione Sardegna | Eterotopia workshop, La Maddalena IT 2018 Zuppa Romana project WAR | Consulta Giovani Architetti Roma, nowhere Roma IT 2016 https://falsemirroroffice.com/031-Saluti-da-Roma Tue, 17 Aug 2021 11:41:35 +0000 false https://falsemirroroffice.com/031-Saluti-da-Roma Saluti da RomaRoma IT |&nbsp; Promenades dans Rome | 2021 False Mirror Office’s contribution to Promenades dans Rome, assembly practices between visions, ruins and reconstructions&nbsp;held at Istituto Svizzero in Rome, curated by Elisa Boeri, Nicola Braghieri, Filippo Cattapan and Filippo Fanciotti. From the article:&nbsp; We propose a series of potential interventions to finally surrender the eternal city to its truly eternal citizens: tourists. Each act differs radically from the other - such large is the distance in shape, history and nature of Rome’s monuments; for the sole sake of consultation we easily exemplify them with four main strategies: removal, replacement, activation and appropriation.&nbsp;[...] An act of removal aims to a radical preservation of the real monument, at the cost of “undoing” it. [...] An act of replacement allows to swap any original monument with its copy. [...]&nbsp;An activationintervention aims at assigning a function to a monument, turning it into a profitable element of the city. [...] With an appropriation act the aura of well-known monument will gratefully inhabit those incomplete places, expanding at the same time the socio-economical benefits of visitors to the whole perimeter inside the G.R.A. while giving a new meaning to some metro stops in the meantime. Read the full article here. ︎ PRESS: Promenades dans Rome&nbsp;LAPIS&nbsp; https://falsemirroroffice.com/030-Not-a-Silo Thu, 10 Jun 2021 16:21:46 +0000 false https://falsemirroroffice.com/030-Not-a-Silo This is not a SILO. Barletta IT |&nbsp; NUDGE 2.0 | 2021 False Mirror Office’s contribution to NUDGE 2.0 - the default of architecture&nbsp;for Antilia Gallery, curated by Profferlo. The harbour of Barletta is not a destination. It is an inevitable stop-over on an ocean crossing by a handful of sailors questioning the nature of Architecture as a language. Between the ballet mécanique of the cranes and the béton brut of the industrial warehouses, the sailors see the silos of Barletta, and those silos immediately become other silos because THEIR EYES SEE, they see in them a fragment of the history of architecture. The silos of Barletta are the grey silos of Canadian and American harbours built by nameless zealous engineers to feed a continent. The silos of Barletta are the whitened silos - magnificent FIRST-FRUITS of the new age - transfigured into simple and beautiful forms brought together in light. The silos of Barletta are also the silos of the heroic modernist symbolism unmasked and thanks to this unmasking they are substitued by new symbols: some of them ugly and ordinary like a Golden Smart cigarette enlarged to the scale of the landscape; others instead memorial of the classicist symbolism like the drum of a column, but ultimately demoted because that column is either kitsch, or Egyptian or simply in polyurethane foam. The silos of Barletta are all these silos together but also every other silo, in its image and in its all possible meanings. Once the semantic game opens up to other linguistic codes, finally, the silos of Barletta are simply in a few letters, ready to be combined and decomposed into rebuses and any other creative writing game: S-I-L-O. And only then the sailors can set sail toward new horizons. ︎ PRESS: Antilia Gallery https://falsemirroroffice.com/028-Capriccio Mon, 17 May 2021 22:06:55 +0000 false https://falsemirroroffice.com/028-Capriccio The Architect's Dream Composite Presence |&nbsp; Biennale 2021 False Mirror Office’s contribution to Composite Presence, the Belgian Pavilion at the 2021 Architecture Biennale in Venice, curated by Bovenbouw. From the description:&nbsp; “The contemporary architect is no longer facing the historical city centre, where he is basically banned from, but with the peripheral and industrial areas. The ordinary, monotonous volumes of the suburbs often host the most avant-garde and experimental activities, also banned from the inner city. Today, The Architect's Dream is to transform these suburban silent structures into new monuments that translate the identity of these brilliant activities into a fantastic set&nbsp;of signifying figures, decorative billboards, platonic-phallic forms, animalier epiphytes and colossal objets trouvés.” ︎ PRESS: La Biennale Bovenbouw https://falsemirroroffice.com/026-Habitat Wed, 21 Oct 2020 14:07:42 +0000 false https://falsemirroroffice.com/026-Habitat Towards a new domestic habitatresearch project | 2020 Our essay "Abitare oltre la pandemia: verso un nuovo habitat domestico" was published in the last issue of “GUD – A magazine about Architecture, Design and Cities.”&nbsp;Read the full text on Stefani Termanini editore website. The search for ways of living that are always adapted to the changes in society is gaining in importance in the context of the current Coronavirus pandemic because, it is precisely the domestic confinement that has made the inadequacy of our homes to contemporary life evident. The mixture of domestic activities with activities traditionally carried out elsewhere, puts in crisis the concepts of type, room, furnishing and dimensional standards because they are incapable of responding to the unprecedented degrees of flexibility and privacy required; the crisis of the domestic home, exhausted by individual digital devices, causes the dissolution of the spaces of exchange and conviviality of the domestic environment. In order to react to this condition, which has put in crisis especially the inhabitants of metropolitan micro-apartments, it is necessary to think of an environment in which intimate spaces for private life, flexible spaces for collective life, technological devices and symbolic objects find a synthesis. From traditional models of dwelling, therefore, it is necessary to recover some of the founding elements such as the wall, the room, the hearth and the piece of furniture, and transform them to give life to a device in which they interact actively with the body and the psyche of the individuals who live there. It is in the conception of this ecosystem, made up of significant spaces, vital stimuli and an alternative community, that is born a domestic model that is no longer a traditional dwelling but a habitat: from existenzminimum to existenzmaximum. The new habitat is made up of different parts that contribute to the definition of a device that goes beyond the "Fundamental Acts" of life, to respond to people's "deep needs". The inhabited wall: a barrier between the metropolis and the habitat that hosts intimate and private spaces, whose activities go beyond survival to generate new rituals. The big box: a neutral and flexible environment at the service of the community. The utensils: devices that, through a synthesis of high technology, action and symbol, allow multisensory collective experiences. The domestic theatre: the fulcrum of collective activities consisting of a conversation pit which, combined with a scenic tower, becomes a stage for the mise en scène of the life of the habitat. <img width="2500" height="1026" width_o="2500" height_o="1026" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b4e3362606ea881f7a0ee8bc572ec217c98633edd159837aef1d17f31ee848d/GUD-view.jpg" data-mid="89226650" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8b4e3362606ea881f7a0ee8bc572ec217c98633edd159837aef1d17f31ee848d/GUD-view.jpg" /> TEAM Andrea AnselmoGloria CastelliniFilippo FanciottiGiovanni GlorialanzaBoris Hamzeian CLIENT Stefano Termanini Editore GUD / Genova University Design INFO https://falsemirroroffice.com/025-Otiarium Mon, 24 Feb 2020 19:07:52 +0000 false https://falsemirroroffice.com/025-Otiarium OTIARIUMCelebrazione dei riti domestici New Domestic Landscape 2020 -&nbsp;SUPERATTICO 2022 La riscoperta del lararium Romano - nicchia o sacello della domus riservato al culto domestico - rappresenta un momento fondamentale di una riflessione condotta da false mirror office sui significati e le mutazioni dei riti dell’abitare. Sebbene le appropriazioni indebite e le metamorfosi che questo elemento ha subito nei secoli vorrebbero convincere del contrario, la scomparsa di un oggetto di culto da un contesto profano e specificatamente dedicato alla domesticità mette a nudo la perdita, per la società contemporanea, della concezione della casa come luogo sacro. La riproposta di questa riflessione nello spazio di Superattico - originariamente ideata in occasione della mostra Italy:&nbsp;The New Domestic Landscape. New York 1972 / Venice 2020 (Cà Tron, Venezia, 2020) - vuole mettere l’accento sull’importanza di ritrovare all’interno delle quattro mura uno spazio fisico tangibile per la celebrazione della domesticità, intesa come dimensione «altra» rispetto a quella moltitudine di attività produttive che, sempre più immateriali ed ubique, contaminano oggi la residenza. Otiarium: larario per l’ozio domestico è un’edicola votiva che accoglie al suo interno un assemblaggio di oggetti sottratti alla quotidianità e sublimati attraverso azioni decorative, atte a rivendicarne una centralità dimenticata. Riconfigurati in un microambiente dall’ apparenza tettonica, i diversi oggetti esposti evocano le «controazioni» attraverso cui l’otium - nella sua accezione di tempo non dedicato ai negotia - può essere celebrato, qui ascrivibili a cinque categorie: 1. Piacere spirituale&nbsp; 2. Piacere sensoriale&nbsp; 3. Esaltazione del sé 4. Alienazione da sé&nbsp; 5. Fare tanto per fare Gli Otiarii - opera dell’inedita collaborazione con l’artista Andrea Cucchi - celebrano ciascuno una tra le cinque declinazioni dell’otium; realizzati con tecnica mista per esaltarne le rispettive peculiarità, i sacrari sono dispositivi eloquenti attraverso la cui attivazione i visitatori divengono celebranti di un rituale. Il nuovo paesaggio domestico si configura come la parodia di un mondo che guarda con sorpresa e ammirazione ai suoi oggetti di consumo e trova conforto nel ristabilire un contatto di intima sacralità con essi. Raccogliere un lumino. Iniziare il pellegrinaggio. Genuflettersi per credere. <img width="1165" height="1653" width_o="1165" height_o="1653" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d80d64e351ceeb9f6ad5981a99b8d6d89b8a5c55fadef68017fc41a2a550e6f5/1.jpg" data-mid="162440976" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d80d64e351ceeb9f6ad5981a99b8d6d89b8a5c55fadef68017fc41a2a550e6f5/1.jpg" /> <img width="1066" height="1600" width_o="1066" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2b46fc28c4c9196dceebff04beb0230ccfb6bac2c4282946e5d08f173ed4f138/FMO_Otiarum_15-copia_1600.jpg" data-mid="162439656" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2b46fc28c4c9196dceebff04beb0230ccfb6bac2c4282946e5d08f173ed4f138/FMO_Otiarum_15-copia_1600.jpg" /> <img width="1165" height="1653" width_o="1165" height_o="1653" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/74b3c039ef4de4f6885f1ca079aefc24201dbe807fb3174dd023d61624e0eff9/2.jpg" data-mid="162440977" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/74b3c039ef4de4f6885f1ca079aefc24201dbe807fb3174dd023d61624e0eff9/2.jpg" /> <img width="1066" height="1600" width_o="1066" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9276bd8c464c7b83575acee1ebcb5aad31bffbd8abfa20e5106f4f5a59019afe/FMO_Otiarum_14-copia_1600.jpg" data-mid="162439662" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9276bd8c464c7b83575acee1ebcb5aad31bffbd8abfa20e5106f4f5a59019afe/FMO_Otiarum_14-copia_1600.jpg" /> <img width="1165" height="1653" width_o="1165" height_o="1653" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/af914ac8e237df9092c9549ed7139cebac893938d81c7e41f1a679230f1fddf8/3.jpg" data-mid="162440978" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/af914ac8e237df9092c9549ed7139cebac893938d81c7e41f1a679230f1fddf8/3.jpg" /> <img width="1066" height="1600" width_o="1066" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f577ceff1d53a20a9736fe57689016466bcaffa34d90ed40bb5e4eaff7c6d122/FMO_Otiarum_13-copia_1600.jpg" data-mid="162439677" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f577ceff1d53a20a9736fe57689016466bcaffa34d90ed40bb5e4eaff7c6d122/FMO_Otiarum_13-copia_1600.jpg" /> <img width="1165" height="1653" width_o="1165" height_o="1653" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/51968309ebf80b9f14ff6ae97ea847b2bc229ec9cf4390a4de07142e7fa19047/4.jpg" data-mid="162440980" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/51968309ebf80b9f14ff6ae97ea847b2bc229ec9cf4390a4de07142e7fa19047/4.jpg" /> <img width="1066" height="1600" width_o="1066" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6758c695a2fc584ba8ab7689c81d0aeb035e227e609b63fa26f816ea25f7e9c5/FMO_Otiarum_12-copia_1600.jpg" data-mid="162439653" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6758c695a2fc584ba8ab7689c81d0aeb035e227e609b63fa26f816ea25f7e9c5/FMO_Otiarum_12-copia_1600.jpg" /> <img width="1165" height="1653" width_o="1165" height_o="1653" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e56423957233d9407928bad00412052f4a23511e220a30b10f2c1f9260206b2/5.jpg" data-mid="162440979" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7e56423957233d9407928bad00412052f4a23511e220a30b10f2c1f9260206b2/5.jpg" /> <img width="1066" height="1600" width_o="1066" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0584e9eb29adfe1e2326285870df7f545b276b505252935fb3b18131e362c1d5/FMO_Otiarum_11-copia_1600.jpg" data-mid="162439649" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0584e9eb29adfe1e2326285870df7f545b276b505252935fb3b18131e362c1d5/FMO_Otiarum_11-copia_1600.jpg" /> TEAM false mirror office VS Andrea Cucchi (Fratelli Marvellini) INFO research for “Italy, the New Domestic Landscape” exhibition at:&nbsp;SUPERATTICO photos by: Marco Dabbicco https://falsemirroroffice.com/024-U-F-O Wed, 09 Sep 2020 22:34:37 +0000 false https://falsemirroroffice.com/024-U-F-O UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT for contemporary architecture publication | research project | ongoing UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT for contemporary architecture is the first monographic publication focused on UFO group, active in Florence between 1968 and 1974 (Carlo Bachi, Lapo Binazzi, Patrizia Cammeo, Riccardo Foresi, Titti Maschietto), with the aim of: studying the group’s festive and apparently innocent and ironic experiments, which were actually conceived as veritable “trojan horses” to destroy myths and rituals of society, city and architecture in order to re-establish them on a political foundation; analysing the UFO’s relationship with the literary, artistic and architectural avant-garde of the 1960s; and, ultimately, understanding the group’s legacy in the contemporary profession of architecture.UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT for contemporary architecture: UFO’s experiments between political activism and artistic avant-garde presented by the Faculty of Architecture LOCI (UCLouvain, Brussels) and curated by Beatrice Lampariello and False Mirror Office, has won the 2020 edition of "Italian Council 2020" program issued by the Directorate-General for the Contemporary Creativity of the&nbsp;Italian Ministry of Culture and focused on the promotion of Italian arts abroad. The project consists of a book in two editions, Italian and English, to be published in summer 2022. Project supported by the Italian Council, Directorate-General for Contemporary Creativity, Italian Ministry of Culture. <img width="931" height="230" width_o="931" height_o="230" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f109f482444827b61a3897ccc25a21aad5d6b95695194f8c83da91581708ff1a/Logo-DGCC-2021_nero_V2_mod-150-2.png" data-mid="108306558" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/931/i/f109f482444827b61a3897ccc25a21aad5d6b95695194f8c83da91581708ff1a/Logo-DGCC-2021_nero_V2_mod-150-2.png" /> <img width="931" height="230" width_o="931" height_o="230" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/982c6b15c89ed218baa562a42644c4b0c091aa9cafdee9e26457b98182426c4c/logo_Italian_Council-nero_V2_mod-150.png" data-mid="108306560" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/931/i/982c6b15c89ed218baa562a42644c4b0c091aa9cafdee9e26457b98182426c4c/logo_Italian_Council-nero_V2_mod-150.png" /> read an excerpt on&nbsp;ISSUU read an excerpt on GOOGLE BOOKS buy it on ACTAR (Italian version)buy it on ACTAR (English version)buy it on HOEPLI (English version) buy e-book on Amazon (English version) https://falsemirroroffice.com/022-Conversation-Pit Wed, 03 Jun 2020 13:57:51 +0000 false https://falsemirroroffice.com/022-Conversation-Pit Conversation Pit CDC Circolo del Design | research essay | 2020 Il confinamento degli ultimi mesi ha messo in discussione il concetto di domesticità. Le nostre case si sono improvvisamente trasformate in ambienti complessi dove intimità, lavoro, svago, contemplazione e sport sono andati a&nbsp; sovrapposti sino a generare forme di coesistenza inedite e forzate. Tutto questo rimette al centro gli spazi di convivio, continuamente minacciati da quei dispositivi portatili che, dal mangiacassette al palmare, hanno gradualmente snaturato quegli ambienti trasferendo la socializzazione, l’informazione e lo svago alla spazio etereo della rete. Con il confinamento, il focolare domestico torna in auge nelle forme più svariate, dagli assembramenti accidentali sul divano, al nostalgico gioco da tavola, sino alle sedute ricostituenti intorno a un tappetino da yoga. Questo fenomeno diventa l’occasione per riscoprire un elemento di convivio di origine antica e che ha trovato la sua espressione più&nbsp; mondana nella società dei consumi del secondo dopoguerra: il conversation pit. Concepito come un ibrido tra un arredo e uno spazio architettonico, il conversation pit è un oggetto complesso ed eloquente. L’invaso che lo raccoglie ne fa un magnete per il flusso domestico. I divani che lo delimitano lo rendono teatro per lo spettacolo e arena per il dibattito. I materiali pregiati e la sua centralità nella casa ne rivelano l’essenza di luogo di rappresentanza. La mollezza delle sue superfici, infine, ne fa un antro intimo e sensuale capace di trasferire al soggiorno le attività notturne del letto, trasformandole in spettacolo. Nel confinamento il conversation pit rivela tutta la sua natura tragica: quella di un dispositivo per la messa in scena della solitudine; quella di&nbsp; una macchina per sguardi non più corrisposti; quella di un’isola per l’introspezione. Per noi architetti il conversation pit non può che essere anche uno strumento per denunciare la necessità di restituire dignità spaziale agli ambienti di vita delle nostre case e l’urgenza di disegnare per essi dispositivi nuovi e significanti. TEAM Andrea AnselmoGloria CastelliniFilippo FanciottiGiovanni GlorialanzaBoris Hamzeian CLIENT CDC Circolo del Design INFO MORE CDC