Analogous City

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

The application is part of a museum installation exploring The Analogous City, an artwork by Aldo Rossi, Eraldo Consolascio, Bruno Reichlin, and Fabio Reinhart, originally presented at the 1976 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Utilizing augmented reality, this app functions alongside a reproduction of The Analogous City—accessible at http://archizoom.epfl.ch—to display the complete references associated with the collage across various layers suspended above the artwork.

This application is essential for engaging 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 reproduction in the form of a map of the Analogous City, published by Archizoom, you can recreate the museum installation’s interactive experience anytime, anywhere. The printed map includes texts by Aldo Rossi, Fabio Reinhart, and Dario Rodighiero.

The Analogous City (La Città Analoga) was developed as a comprehensive 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 (circa 1625), Francesco Borromini’s plan of 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 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.