Analogous City

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

This application is a feature of a museum installation centered on The Analogous City, an artwork by Aldo Rossi, Eraldo Consolascio, Bruno Reichlin, and Fabio Reinhart, first presented at the 1976 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Utilizing augmented reality, the app works in tandem with a physical reproduction of The Analogous City—available at http://archizoom.epfl.ch—to display the complete references from the original collage on various layers suspended above the artwork.

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

By acquiring the published reproduction map of the Analogous City from Archizoom, you can recreate the museum installation’s interactive experience anytime, anywhere. The printed map includes accompanying texts by Aldo Rossi, Fabio Reinhart, and Dario Rodighiero.

The Analogous City (La Città Analoga) was developed as a full-fledged urban proposal. Its composite elements feature, among others, 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 master plan for the Chapel of Notre Dame du Haut (1954), and several architectural projects by Aldo Rossi and his collaborators.

“Between past and present, reality and imagination, the analogous city is perhaps simply the city to be designed 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.