This app is a component of a museum exhibition dedicated to the Analogous City.
The application is a piece of a museum installation centered on The Analogous City, an artwork by Aldo Rossi, Eraldo Consolascio, Bruno Reichlin, and Fabio Reinhart, originally created for 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 collage references across multiple layers suspended above the artwork.
This 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 Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, Archizoom EPFL in Lausanne, and GAMeC in Bergamo.
By purchasing the reproduction as a map of the Analogous City, published by Archizoom, you can recreate the museum installation's interactive experience anytime and anywhere. The printed map includes texts by Aldo Rossi, Fabio Reinhart, and Dario Rodighiero.
The Analogous City (La Città Analoga) was envisioned as a true urban project. Its components feature, among other things, 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 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.
