Analogous City

This application is a component of a museum installation exploring the concept of the Analogous City.

The application is part of a museum installation dedicated to 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 physical reproduction of The Analogous City—available at http://archizoom.epfl.ch—to reveal the full range of references within the collage, presenting them on various layers that appear 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, hosted 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 at any time and location. The printed map includes texts by Aldo Rossi, Fabio Reinhart, and Dario Rodighiero.

The Analogous City (La Città Analoga) was originally conceived as a comprehensive urban project. Its composite elements include, among others, The Drawing of Vitruvius’ city by Giovanni Battista Caporali (1536), Galileo Galilei’s illustration 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 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 Lots International n. 13, 1976.