This app is a component of a museum exhibit exploring the Analogous City.
The application forms part of a museum installation dedicated to The Analogous City, an artwork by Aldo Rossi, Eraldo Consolascio, Bruno Reichlin, and Fabio Reinhart, originally created for the 1976 Venice Architecture Biennale. Utilizing augmented reality technology, this app complements a physical reproduction of The Analogous City—available at http://archizoom.epfl.ch—by visually layering the artwork's complete references as interactive digital elements.
This tool serves as an essential interface for the digital component of the traveling 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.
Through purchasing Archizoom's printed map reproduction of The Analogous City, users can recreate the museum experience anywhere. The map features accompanying texts by Aldo Rossi, Fabio Reinhart, and Dario Rodighiero.
Conceived as an authentic urban planning project, The Analogous City (La Città Analoga) incorporates diverse historical elements including: Giovanni Battista Caporali's Vitruvian city drawing (1536), Galileo Galilei's Pleiades constellation sketch (1610), Tanzio da Varallo's David and Goliath painting (c. 1625), Francesco Borromini's San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane plans (1638-1641), the Dufour topographic map (1864), Le Corbusier's Notre Dame du Haut chapel design (1954), and numerous architectural proposals by Rossi and his contemporaries.
"Between past and present, reality and imagination, the analogous city represents the daily act of urban design—confronting challenges and resolving them with the hopeful conviction that improvements will emerge." – Aldo Rossi on The Analogous City, Lotus International n. 13, 1976.
