Analogous City

This application is a key component of a museum installation centered around Aldo Rossi, Eraldo Consolascio, Bruno Reichlin, and Fabio Reinhart's The Analogous City, a seminal artwork from the 1976 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Utilizing augmented reality, the application enhances a reproduction of The Analogous City (available at http://archizoom.epfl.ch), overlaying multiple interactive layers of source material onto the artwork itself.

This application is integral to the interactive digital installations for the exhibition "Aldo Rossi - The Window of the Poet, Prints 1973-1997," currently showing at the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, Archizoom EPFL in Lausanne, and GAMeC in Bergamo.

Purchasing the Archizoom-published map reproduction of The Analogous City allows you to recreate the museum installation experience anytime, anywhere. This printed map includes texts by Aldo Rossi, Fabio Reinhart, and Dario Rodighiero.

The Analogous City (La Città Analoga) was conceived as a fully realized urban project. Its composite elements draw from a diverse range of sources, including 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 (ca. 1625), Francesco Borromini's plan for 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.

As Aldo Rossi himself described in Lotus International No. 13 (1976): “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.”