This app is a component of a museum exhibit exploring the Analogous City.
The application forms part of a museum installation featuring The Analogous City, a collaborative artwork by Aldo Rossi, Eraldo Consolascio, Bruno Reichlin, and Fabio Reinhart, originally presented at the 1976 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Utilizing augmented reality technology, the app complements a physical reproduction of The Analogous City—accessible at http://archizoom.epfl.ch—by visualizing the complete references embedded within the collage through layered digital overlays above the artwork.
This tool is essential for engaging with the digital components of the exhibition Aldo Rossi - The Window of the Poet, Prints 1973-1997, showcased at Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, Archizoom EPFL in Lausanne, and GAMeC in Bergamo.
Purchasing the specially published map reproduction of The Analogous City by Archizoom allows users to experience the museum installation's interactive features anytime, anywhere. The printed map includes accompanying texts by Aldo Rossi, Fabio Reinhart, and Dario Rodighiero.
Conceived as a true urban planning endeavor, The Analogous City (La Città Analoga) incorporates diverse historical elements: Giovanni Battista Caporali's 1536 Drawing of Vitruvius' city, Galileo Galilei's 1610 Pleiades Constellation sketch, Tanzio da Varallo's circa 1625 David and Goliath painting, Francesco Borromini's 1638-1641 San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane plans, the 1864 Dufour topographic map, Le Corbusier's 1954 chapel of Notre Dame du Haut design, alongside numerous architectural concepts by Rossi and his associates.
"Spanning past and present, reality and imagination, the analogous city represents perhaps nothing more than the continual act of daily urban creation—confronting challenges and resolving them, with quiet confidence in eventual improvement." —Aldo Rossi on The Analogous City, Lotus International n.13, 1976.
