Analogous City

This application is a key component of a museum exhibition dedicated to the Analogous City.

This application is part of a museum installation showcasing The Analogous City, an architectural artwork by Aldo Rossi, Eraldo Consolascio, Bruno Reichlin, and Fabio Reinhart, originally created for the 1976 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Using augmented reality, the app works in tandem with a reproduction of The Analogous City—available at http://archizoom.epfl.ch—to display the complete references of the collage on various layers suspended above the artwork.

The application is required to interact with the digital installation for the exhibition "Aldo Rossi - The Window of the Poet, Prints 1973-1997," presented at the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, Archizoom EPFL in Lausanne, and GAMeC in Bergamo.

By purchasing the reproduction map of the Analogous City published by Archizoom, you can recreate the museum installation's interactive experience anytime and anywhere. The printed map features texts written by Aldo Rossi, Fabio Reinhart, and Dario Rodighiero.

The Analogous City (La Città Analoga) was designed as a true urban project. Its composite elements include Giovanni Battista Caporali's drawing of Vitruvius' city (1536), Galileo Galilei's drawing of the Pleiades Constellation (1610), Tanzio da Varallo's painting "David and Goliath" (c. 1625), Francesco Borromini's plan for San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (1638-1641), the Dufour topographic map (1864), Le Corbusier's general plan for the chapel of Notre Dame du Haut (1954), and various architectural projects by Aldo Rossi and his collaborators.

“Between past and present, reality and imagination, the analogous city is perhaps simply the city we design day by day, tackling problems and overcoming them, with a reasonable certainty that things will ultimately be better.” – Aldo Rossi on the Analogous City, in Lotus International n. 13, 1976.