This app is a component of a museum exhibition exploring The Analogous City.
The application forms part of a museum installation dedicated to The Analogous City, an artistic work by Aldo Rossi, Eraldo Consolascio, Bruno Reichlin, and Fabio Reinhart, originally presented at the 1976 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Utilizing augmented reality, this tool pairs with a physical reproduction of The Analogous City—accessible at http://archizoom.epfl.ch—to reveal layered digital annotations hovering above the original artwork.
This digital companion enables visitor interaction with exhibits in "Aldo Rossi - The Window of the Poet, Prints 1973-1997," showcased at Bonnefanten Museum (Maastricht), Archizoom EPFL (Lausanne), and GAMeC (Bergamo).
Owners of Archizoom's printed Analogous City map can recreate the museum experience anywhere. This collectible edition features writings by Aldo Rossi, Fabio Reinhart, and Dario Rodighiero.
Conceived as an actual urban planning proposal, The Analogous City (La Città Analoga) synthesizes historical references including: Giovanni Battista Caporali's Vitruvian City (1536), Galileo's Pleiades sketch (1610), Tanzio da Varallo's David and Goliath (c.1625), Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane plans (1638-1641), Dufour's topographic maps (1864), Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut chapel designs (1954), plus numerous works by Rossi and colleagues.
"Between past and present, reality and imagination, the analogous city may simply represent the daily act of urban design—confronting challenges with reasonable hope for improvement." —Aldo Rossi on The Analogous City, Lotus International n.13 (1976).
