Andrea Anselmo CV | August 2020 Andrea Anselmo is assistant and researcher in theory and history of architecture at the Université Catholique de Louvain LOCI in Brussels, partner of the architectural group False Mirror Office and member of the editorial board of the magazine "Burrasca". Anselmo (Imperia, 1988) graduated in Architecture from the Scuola Politecnica di Genova (UNIGE), and the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Versailles (ENSA-V). In 2014 he was teaching assistant at the Scuola Politecnica di Genova in the design studio “Fondamenti di Architettura Contemporanea” lead by Professors Giovanni Galli and Nicola Lunardi. In 2015, together with Gloria Castellini, Filippo Fanciotti, Giovanni Glorialanza and Boris Hamzeian, he founded the False Mirror Office architecture group, which deals with architectural design - selected by "Divisare" in the collection New Architects 1 (2017) and winner of the Europan 13 competition in Trondheim (2015) -, teaching, trough workshops and conferences, and research, by writing scientific essays and articles. Since the years of education, he has worked for several architectural firms - Manuelle Gautrand Architects in Paris (2011), Laboratory for Visionary Architecture in Berlin (2012), Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam (2013) and MVRDV both in Rotterdam and Paris (2015-2019) - where he developed architectural and urban projects from conception to construction site. He has lectured in numerous universities and institutions, including Politecnico di Milano, Università Federico II di Napoli, Casa dell'Architettura di Roma, École Nationale Supérieure de Nancy, and University of Melbourne, and he has been tutoring in numerous workshops: La Maddalena (2018), Selinunte (2017), Wroclaw (2017). Currently, as an assistant at UCLouvain, he teaches in the architectural design studio (1st year), research studio (5th year), introduction to architecture (1st year) and introduction to research (4th year). www.andreaanselmo.com www.falsemirroroffice.com www.burrascamagazine.com Contact & data Address: rue de Fierlant 171, 1190 Forest (Brussels), Belgium Phone: +33 684584127 E-mail: andrea.anselmo@uclouvain.be Nationality: Italian Birth: 20/10/1988 Foreign languages: Advanced knowledge of French and English.
Education 2007-14 | Laurea Magistrale in Architettura, Scuola Politecnica di Genova, 110 with honours (16 March 2014) 2010-11 | Erasmus visiting student, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles (ENSA-V)
Workshops et visiting schools 2012 | Participation in the workshop «Behavioral Composites», Aalto University, Helsinki, FI 2011 | Workshop «Question métropolitaine», UFRJ + ENSA-V , Rio de Janeiro, BR 2011 | Participation au workshop «Gau:di», Faculté d’Architecture, Université de Liège, BE 2009-10 | Itinerant studio «Villard 11», University of Rome, Venice, Palermo, IT and Paris-Malaquais, FR
Publications
Books/monographs False Mirror Office (Andrea Anselmo, Gloria Castellini, Filippo Fanciotti, Giovanni Glorialanza and Boris Hamzeian). False Mirror Office. Foretaste. New Architects 1. Rome: Europaconcorsi, 2017. ISSN: 2532-523X (Divisare books #112)
Book chapters False Mirror Office (Anselmo, Andrea, Castellini, Gloria, Fanciotti, Filippo, Glorialanza, Giovanni and Boris Hamzeian). “Otiarium”. In Italy: The New Domestic Landscape. New York 1972/Venice 2020, edited by Chiara Carrera, Giovanni Svalduz and Elena Sofia Moretti, 110-11. L’artegrafica, 2020. ISBN: 979-12-200-6213-8 False Mirror Office (Anselmo, Andrea, Castellini, Gloria, Fanciotti, Filippo, Glorialanza, Giovanni and Boris Hamzeian). “Coming of age”. In Architecture Is Just a Pretex edited by Carnet, 20, 33, 69, 150, 161, 172-3, 18. Conegliano: Anteferma Edizioni, 2019. ISBN: 978-88-32050-47-9 Anselmo, Andrea, Filippo Fanciotti (for False Mirror Office). "#Findthegreatbeauty." In Ossa 2017. The Great Beauty., edited by Edyta Filipczak, Anna Klimczak, Karolina Popera and Patryk Slusarski, 81-89. Wroctaw: Fundacja Jednostka Architektury, 2018. ISBN: 978-83-946884-1-7 False Mirror Office (Anselmo, Andrea, Castellini, Gloria, Fanciotti, Filippo, Glorialanza, Giovanni and Boris Hamzeian), Gosplan, Pia, LINEARAMA and UNO8A. "Small Talk." In Genoa Five, edited by Divisare (Paolo Antonacci and Domenica Bona), 18-24. Rome: Europaconcorsi, 2017. ISSN: 2532-523X (Divisare books #117) Anselmo, Andrea. "Il Passaggio dal Modello Fisico al Digitale e Ritorno." In Modelli e Immagini per la Rappresentazione dell’Architettura, edited by Cristina Candito, 99-107. Roma: Aracne Editrice, 2016. ISBN: 978-88-548-9802-8 Anselmo, Andrea, and Riccardo Badano. "La Casa dei Morti Ovvero l’Ultima Dimora. Conversazione con Gianni Braghieri sul Cimitero di Modena." In Anfione e Zeto, Architettura: Il Duplice Sguardo su Vita e Morte, edited by Marina Leoni and Giorgio Pigafetta, 81-90. Padova: Il Poligrafo, 2014. ISBN: 978-88-7115-823-5
Journal articles False Mirror Office (Anselmo, Andrea, Castellini, Gloria, Fanciotti, Filippo, Glorialanza, Giovanni and Boris Hamzeian) and Katarzyna Mikulska. "Home Sweet World. Z Architektami Z False Mirror Office Rozmawia Katarzyna Mikulska [a Dialogue between False Mirror Office and Katarzyna Mikulska]." Architektura & Biznes 5, no. 334 (May 2020 2020): 140-49. ISSN: 1230-1817 Couveur Daniel, False Mirror Office (Anselmo, Andrea, Castellini, Gloria, Fanciotti, Filippo, Glorialanza, Giovanni and Boris Hamzeian) et al. "Se Loger Autrement." Le Soir (Brussels), 30 July 2020, 12-13. ISSN : 1186-4583
Anselmo, Andrea and Boris Hamzeian (for False Mirror Office). "L’assemblaggio come Testo Figurativo per l’Architettura. Un Dialogo tra Ufo e False Mirror Office." In PianoB 4, no. 2 (2019): 88-118 https://pianob.unibo.it/article/view/10637. ISSN: 2531-9876 False Mirror Office (Anselmo, Andrea, Castellini, Gloria, Fanciotti, Filippo, Glorialanza, Giovanni and Boris Hamzeian). "Play City." Viceversa. Theorem: Discourse(s), no. 8 (July 2019): 46-49. https://viceversamagazine.com/issues_magazine/theoremdiscourses/?fbclid=IwAR2uP1R59Ph22R2IHEhrfOJ5ivDBX7jkX6ksuX31w_xX-W-Cs2SUZAR7ENU. ISSN: 2421-2687 Anselmo, Andrea, and Chiara Federico. "The Architecture of the Book, an Interview to Irma Boom." Burrasca, no. 4 (2016): 36-46. ISSN: 2531-5145 Anselmo, Andrea, Giacomo Pala, and Stefano Stecchelli (for Burrasca). "The Future Is Here… Looking Back at Us." Atlantis. Magazine by Polys: platform for urbanism 25, no. 3 (2015): 19-20. ISSN: 1387-3679 Anselmo, Andrea. "Three Topics, Two Cities. On Rio, Genoa and the Politics of Huge Events. An Interview to Guillerme Lassance." Burrasca, no. 1 (2014): 72-77. ISSN: 2531-5145
Journals edited issues Anselmo, Andrea, Alice Baiardo, Luigi Mandraccio, Giacomo Pala, and Greta Scarzo. "Burrasca #5: 5th World." Burrasca 3, no. 5 (November 2016). ISSN: 2531-5145 Anselmo, Andrea, Alice Baiardo, Giacomo Pala, and Greta Scarzo. "Burrasca #4: Fat/Anorexic." Burrasca 3, no. 4 (July 2016). ISSN: 2531-5145 Anselmo, Andrea, Luigi Mandraccio, Giacomo Pala, and Greta Scarzo (Eds.). "Burrasca #3: Glitch." Burrasca 2, no. 3 (November 2015). ISSN: 2531-5145 Anselmo, Andrea, Luigi Mandraccio, and Greta Scarzo (Eds.). "Burrasca #2: Biennali." Burrasca 2, no. 2 (May 2015). ISSN: 2531-5145 Anselmo, Andrea, and Luigi Mandraccio. "Burrasca #1: Brazil." Burrasca 1, no. 1 (October 2014). ISSN: 2531-5145
Conference proceedings False Mirror Office (Anselmo, Andrea, Castellini, Gloria, Fanciotti, Filippo, Glorialanza, Giovanni and Boris Hamzeian). "Mis-Representing Architecture." Paper presented at the Nuovo disegno di Architettura italiano. La centralità ritrovata, Rome, 2018.
Conference posters Andrea Anselmo. “The structure of void. The aesthetic potential of self-organized structures.” In Form after Form. On the relentless emergence of new (architectural) forms. 1st Genoa Symposium, organized by the research collective ICAR65. Università degli Studi di Genova, DSA, 2014. Lectures 2020 | Mis-representing Architecture, University of Melbourne, AU 2019 | The Market Hall, MVRDV, Politecnico di Milano, IT 2018 | Mis-representing Architecture, École Nationale Supérieur de Nancy, FR 2017 | Reconstructivist Architecture, Casa dell’Architettura, Rome, IT 2017 | The Great Beauty, Niemcza, PL 2017 | The identity of the point of view, Università Federico II, Naples, IT 2016 | The False Mirror, Scuola Politecnica, Genoa, IT Teaching 2019-20 | Assistant & researcher, full time, UCLouvain, Saint Gilles (Brussels), BE • Projet d'architecture - 1st year • Introduction à l'architecture - 1st year • Initiation à la recherche - 4th year • Ateliers de recherche en et sur l'architecture - Patrimoine Herité - 5th year 2018 | Tutor for the workshop «Eterotopia», La Maddalena, IT 2017 | Tutor for the workshop «The Great Beauty - OSSA», Niemcza & Wrocław, PL 2017 | Tutor for «Selinunte Summer School - After Earthquakes», AIAC, Selinunte, IT 2014-15 | Teaching Assistant, 1st year design studio, Scuola Politecnica, Genoa, IT
Professional experience & projects (selection) 2015-20 | False Mirror Office, Partner and co-founder • • • • • • • •
mixed-use masterplan, Europan 13, Trondheim, NO [open competition, first prize] research on the “suburban villa” type [exhibited in Rome, London, New York] interior design, Genova, IT [under construction] strategic urban planning, Trondheim, NO [under development] public space design, Trondheim, NO [under development] furniture design, Venice, IT [realised] pavilion, La Maddalena, IT [realised] public space masterplan, Trondheim, NO [open competition, first prize]
2015-19 | MVRDV France, Architect, Rotterdam, NL & Paris, FR • mixed-use quarter, Paris, FR • public space and facilities, Tainan, TW • library, Shanghai, CN • masterplan, Copenhagen, DE 2013 | Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Intern architect, Rotterdam, NL • university and laboratory, Paris, FR • masterplan, Nanterre, FR • housing building, Bordeaux, FR
2012 | Laboratory for Visionary Architecture, Intern architect, Berlin, DE • residential and office towers, Berlin, GE • sport arena, Kalthomfeld, GE • laboratory, Psatry, SA 2011 | Manuelle Gautrand Architecture, Intern architect, Paris, FR • music center, Ashkelon, IL • mixed-use quarter, Valenciennes, FR
Prizes & scolarships 2015 | Europan 13, Trondheim, NO [competition project, first prize] 2012 | Erasmus Placement, 6 months at LAVA office, Berlin, DE [scholarship] 2011 | GAU:DI European Competition [competition project, first prize] 2010 | Erasmus, 1 year at ENSA-Versailles, FR [scholarship] 2010 | Itinerant studio «Villard 11» [scholarship; competition project, second prize]