False Mirror Office

30/08/2023

this Friday at 10:45 am ours Filippo Fanciotti and Giovanni Glorialanza will be guests of EAAE Annual conference 2023 School of Architecure(s) at the Valentino Castle in Turin to present our practice as final keynote
Many thanks to EAAE European Association for Architectural Education for the invitation.

In addition to us From 31 August to 01 September there will be keynotes by :

La Rivoluzione delle Seppie
Fosbury Architecture
paesaggisensibili

19/02/2023

Some pictures of UFO book from Actar Publishers, available in English and Italian in libraries and on Actar website: https://actar.com/product/ufo-eng-ed/
https://actar.com/product/ufo-it-ed/

25/01/2023

Siamo felici di comunicare che mercoledì 1 febbraio alle 18:30 presenteremo il libro Uindentifed Flying Object per l’architettura contemporanea, curato in collaborazione con la professoressa Beatrice Lampariello, al Centro per l'arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci di Prato.

L’evento vedrà la straordinaria partecipazione degli UFO: Lapo Binazzi, Patrizia Cammeo e Titti Maschietto.

Ringraziamo il curatore Stefano Pezzato per l’invito.

Per più informazioni:

Il Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci è la prima istituzione italiana costruita ex novo per presentare le ricerche artistiche più avanzate.

15/11/2022

• gussied up for company party •

MIRAGGIO
Un’oasi segreta al Kilometro Rosso
Invited competition | Bergamo IT | 2022
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Many thanks to GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo and Confindustria Bergamo for the invitation to redesign the square between the Confindustria HQ and Jean Nouvel's Kilometro Rosso, in view of Bergamo and Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023. Congratulations to Salottobuono for the winning proposal.
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The square in front of the headquarters of Confindustria Bergamo looks today like an anonymous and inhospitable place. Reduced to a paved surface exposed to all kinds of inclement weather, from the beating sun of the Po Valley to the windy currents generated by the configuration of the built-up area to the noise pollution shielded only by the diaphragm of the Kilometro Rosso, this place appears to the visitor as a deserted and desolate heath, a square/desert that shuns the nature on which it was once built.

And it is precisely against the image of this metaphorical desert that False Mirror Office imagines here the mirage of a fantastic, mysterious and ambivalent oasis.
The mirage offers Confindustria a place for shelter, encounter and contemplation, an artificial and welcoming nature …

>>> Continue reading at www.falsemirroroffice.com

15/11/2022

• in the heat of a working day •

MIRAGGIO
Un’oasi segreta al Kilometro Rosso
Invited competition | Bergamo IT | 2022
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Many thanks to GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo and Confindustria Bergamo for the invitation to redesign the square between the Confindustria HQ and Jean Nouvel's Kilometro Rosso, in view of Bergamo and Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023. Congratulations to Salottobuono for the winning proposal.
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The square in front of the headquarters of Confindustria Bergamo looks today like an anonymous and inhospitable place. Reduced to a paved surface exposed to all kinds of inclement weather, from the beating sun of the Po Valley to the windy currents generated by the configuration of the built-up area to the noise pollution shielded only by the diaphragm of the Kilometro Rosso, this place appears to the visitor as a deserted and desolate heath, a square/desert that shuns the nature on which it was once built.

And it is precisely against the image of this metaphorical desert that False Mirror Office imagines here the mirage of a fantastic, mysterious and ambivalent oasis.
The mirage offers Confindustria a place for shelter, encounter and contemplation, an artificial and welcoming nature …

>>> Continue reading at www.falsemirroroffice.com

15/11/2022

• different ways of living the lunch break •

MIRAGGIO
Un’oasi segreta al Kilometro Rosso
Invited competition | Bergamo IT | 2022
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Many thanks to GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo and Confindustria Bergamo for the invitation to redesign the square between the Confindustria HQ and Jean Nouvel's Kilometro Rosso, in view of Bergamo and Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023. Congratulations to Salottobuono for the winning proposal.
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The square in front of the headquarters of Confindustria Bergamo looks today like an anonymous and inhospitable place. Reduced to a paved surface exposed to all kinds of inclement weather, from the beating sun of the Po Valley to the windy currents generated by the configuration of the built-up area to the noise pollution shielded only by the diaphragm of the Kilometro Rosso, this place appears to the visitor as a deserted and desolate heath, a square/desert that shuns the nature on which it was once built.

And it is precisely against the image of this metaphorical desert that False Mirror Office imagines here the mirage of a fantastic, mysterious and ambivalent oasis.
The mirage offers Confindustria a place for shelter, encounter and contemplation, an artificial and welcoming nature …

>>> Continue reading at www.falsemirroroffice.com

15/11/2022

• visiting daddy at work •

MIRAGGIO
Un’oasi segreta al Kilometro Rosso
Invited competition | Bergamo IT | 2022
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Many thanks to GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo and Confindustria Bergamo for the invitation to redesign the square between the Confindustria HQ and Jean Nouvel's Kilometro Rosso, in view of Bergamo and Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023. Congratulations to Salottobuono for the winning proposal.
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The square in front of the headquarters of Confindustria Bergamo looks today like an anonymous and inhospitable place. Reduced to a paved surface exposed to all kinds of inclement weather, from the beating sun of the Po Valley to the windy currents generated by the configuration of the built-up area to the noise pollution shielded only by the diaphragm of the Kilometro Rosso, this place appears to the visitor as a deserted and desolate heath, a square/desert that shuns the nature on which it was once built.

And it is precisely against the image of this metaphorical desert that False Mirror Office imagines here the mirage of a fantastic, mysterious and ambivalent oasis.
The mirage offers Confindustria a place for shelter, encounter and contemplation, an artificial and welcoming nature …

>>> Continue reading at www.falsemirroroffice.com

15/11/2022

• celebrating the coffee and si*****te ritual •

MIRAGGIO
Un’oasi segreta al Kilometro Rosso
Invited competition | Bergamo IT | 2022
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Many thanks to GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo and Confindustria Bergamo for the invitation to redesign the square between the Confindustria HQ and Jean Nouvel's Kilometro Rosso, in view of Bergamo and Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023. Congratulations to Salottobuono for the winning proposal.
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The square in front of the headquarters of Confindustria Bergamo looks today like an anonymous and inhospitable place. Reduced to a paved surface exposed to all kinds of inclement weather, from the beating sun of the Po Valley to the windy currents generated by the configuration of the built-up area to the noise pollution shielded only by the diaphragm of the Kilometro Rosso, this place appears to the visitor as a deserted and desolate heath, a square/desert that shuns the nature on which it was once built.

And it is precisely against the image of this metaphorical desert that False Mirror Office imagines here the mirage of a fantastic, mysterious and ambivalent oasis.
The mirage offers Confindustria a place for shelter, encounter and contemplation, an artificial and welcoming nature …

>>> Continue reading at www.falsemirroroffice.com

15/11/2022

• a moment of leisure before going to work •

MIRAGGIO
Un’oasi segreta al Kilometro Rosso
Invited competition | Bergamo IT | 2022
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Many thanks to GAMeC - Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo and Confindustria Bergamo for the invitation to redesign the square between the Confindustria HQ and Jean Nouvel's Kilometro Rosso, in view of Bergamo and Brescia Italian Capital of Culture 2023. Congratulations to Salottobuono for the winning proposal.
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The square in front of the headquarters of Confindustria Bergamo looks today like an anonymous and inhospitable place. Reduced to a paved surface exposed to all kinds of inclement weather, from the beating sun of the Po Valley to the windy currents generated by the configuration of the built-up area to the noise pollution shielded only by the diaphragm of the Kilometro Rosso, this place appears to the visitor as a deserted and desolate heath, a square/desert that shuns the nature on which it was once built.

And it is precisely against the image of this metaphorical desert that False Mirror Office imagines here the mirage of a fantastic, mysterious and ambivalent oasis.
The mirage offers Confindustria a place for shelter, encounter and contemplation, an artificial and welcoming nature …

>>> Continue reading at www.falsemirroroffice.com

09/11/2022

Grazie mille DOCOMOMO Italia per la condivisione del nostro libro. Fra pochi giorni verrà distribuita anche la versione italiana!

Beatrice Lampariello, Andrea Anselmo, Boris Hamzeian (eds.), UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT FOR CONTEMPORARY ARCHITECTURE. UFO’s Experiments between Political Activism and the Artistic Avant-garde, Actar Publishers 2022

"The collaboration between Beatrice Lampariello, an architecture historian specialized in the 1960s and 1970s, and False Mirror Office, a group of historians and designers engaged in the rediscovery of UFO group, lead to a monograph focused on the UFO’s work and an evaluation of their legacy relative to contemporary architecture"..

Read more
https://actar.com/product/ufo-eng-ed/

02/11/2022

• OTIARIUM #01 - PIACERE SPIRITUALE •

Exhibition Opening 04 NOV 2022 h 6.30 pm (via Eustachi 40, Milano) OTIARIUM : the celebration of domestic rites. false mirror office VS Andrea Cucchi ()

The rediscovery of the Roman Lararium represents a pivotal moment within the research that false mirror office is conducting on the mutations of domestic rites.
"Otiarium, Lararium for domestic otium is an object that underlines the importance of finding a physical space for celebrating domesticity, as that dimension ‘other’ than the productive environment which, so increasingly immaterial and ubiquitous, contaminates the dwelling today.
The “Otiarii" - result of the unprecedented collaboration of false mirror office and Andrea Cucchi - are eloquent devices through whose activation visitors turn into celebrants of a ritual, resuming five counteractions by which otium can be celebrated.
The new domestic landscape is shaped as the parody of a world that looks with surprise and admiration at its objects of consumption and finds comfort in re-establishing a contact of intimate sacredness with them.
Genuflect to believe.

02/11/2022

• OTIARIUM - LARARIUM PER L’OZIO DOMESTICO •

Exhibition Opening 04 NOV 2022 h 6.30 pm (via Eustachi 40, Milano) OTIARIUM : the celebration of domestic rites. false mirror office VS Andrea Cucchi ()

The rediscovery of the Roman Lararium represents a pivotal moment within the research that false mirror office is conducting on the mutations of domestic rites.
"Otiarium, Lararium for domestic otium is an object that underlines the importance of finding a physical space for celebrating domesticity, as that dimension ‘other’ than the productive environment which, so increasingly immaterial and ubiquitous, contaminates the dwelling today.
The “Otiarii" - result of the unprecedented collaboration of false mirror office and Andrea Cucchi - are eloquent devices through whose activation visitors turn into celebrants of a ritual, resuming five counteractions by which otium can be celebrated.
The new domestic landscape is shaped as the parody of a world that looks with surprise and admiration at its objects of consumption and finds comfort in re-establishing a contact of intimate sacredness with them.
Genuflect to believe.