This application is a component of a museum installation exploring the Analogous City.
This app forms part 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. Leveraging augmented reality, it works in conjunction with a physical reproduction of The Analogous City—available at http://archizoom.epfl.ch—to reveal the full references within the collage across various layers suspended above the artwork.
The application is required to interact with the digital installation for the exhibition Aldo Rossi - The Poet's Window, Prints 1973-1997, presented at the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, Archizoom EPFL in Lausanne, and GAMeC in Bergamo.
By acquiring the reproduction in the form of an Archizoom-published map of the Analogous City, you can recreate the museum installation's interactive experience anytime, anywhere. This 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 composite elements include, among others, The Drawing of Vitruvius’ city by Giovanni Battista Caporali (1536), Galileo Galilei's drawing of the Pleiades Constellation (1610), Tanzio da Varallo's painting David and Goliath (circa 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 Lotus International n. 13, 1976.
