Analogous City

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

The application forms part of a museum installation featuring The Analogous City, an artwork by Aldo Rossi, Eraldo Consolascio, Bruno Reichlin, and Fabio Reinhart, originally created for the 1976 Venice Biennale of Architecture. This augmented reality application functions alongside a reproduction of The Analogous City—accessible at http://archizoom.epfl.ch—by displaying the complete collage references across multiple layers suspended above the artwork.

This application is essential for interacting with the digital installation presented in the exhibition Aldo Rossi - The Window of the Poet, Prints 1973-1997, held at Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, Archizoom EPFL in Lausanne, and GAMeC in Bergamo.

By acquiring the reproduction in the form of an Analogous City map published by Archizoom, you can recreate the museum installation's interactive experience anytime and anywhere. The printed map contains texts by Aldo Rossi, Fabio Reinhart, and Dario Rodighiero.

The Analogous City (La Città Analoga) was conceived as a genuine urban project. Its composite elements include The Drawing of Vitruvius' city by Giovanni Battista Caporali (1536), Galileo Galilei's drawing of the Pleiades Constellation (1610), David and Goliath by Tanzio da Varallo (c. 1625), Francesco Borromini's plan of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (1638-1641), the Dufour topographic map (1864), Le Corbusier's general plan for Notre Dame du Haut chapel (1954), and various architectural projects by Aldo Rossi and his collaborators.

"Between past and present, reality and imagination, the analogous city might simply represent the city we design day by day—confronting challenges, overcoming obstacles, with reasonable confidence that things will ultimately improve." – Aldo Rossi on the Analogous City, in Lotus International n. 13, 1976.

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