Analogous City

This application enhances a museum exhibit about The Analogous City, a 1976 Venice Biennale artwork by Aldo Rossi, Eraldo Consolascio, Bruno Reichlin, and Fabio Reinhart. Utilizing augmented reality (AR), the application interacts with a reproduction of The Analogous City (available at http://archizoom.epfl.ch), overlaying layered digital references onto the artwork.

This AR experience is integral to the exhibition "Aldo Rossi - The window of the poet, Prints 1973-1997," currently showing at the Bonnefanten Museum (Maastricht), Archizoom EPFL (Lausanne), and GAMeC (Bergamo).

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

The Analogous City (La Città Analoga) was envisioned as a real urban project. Its components include: Giovanni Battista Caporali's drawing of Vitruvius' city (1536); Galileo Galilei's Pleiades Constellation drawing (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 plan for the Notre Dame du Haut chapel (1954); and various architectural projects by Aldo Rossi and his collaborators.

As Aldo Rossi himself described in Lotus International #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.”

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