Analogous City

This application is featured in a museum exhibition centered on the Analogous City.

This application forms a component of a museum installation dedicated to The Analogous City—an artistic creation by Aldo Rossi, Eraldo Consolascio, Bruno Reichlin, and Fabio Reinhart, first exhibited at the 1976 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Operating through augmented reality, the app connects with a reproduction of The Analogous City (which can be accessed at http://archizoom.epfl.ch) and overlays the artwork with layered, full references from the collage.

The application is required for visitors to engage with the digital installation featured in the exhibition Aldo Rossi - The window of the poet, Prints 1973-1997, held at the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, Archizoom EPFL in Lausanne, and GAMeC in Bergamo.

By acquiring a reproduced map of the Analogous City, published by Archizoom, users can replicate the museum installation and its interactive experience anytime and anywhere. The printed map also includes essays by Aldo Rossi, Fabio Reinhart, and Dario Rodighiero.

The Analogous City (La Città Analoga) was developed as a true urban planning concept. Its structure incorporates a variety of references: Giovanni Battista Caporali’s Drawing of Vitruvius’ City (1536), Galileo Galilei’s illustration of the Pleiades Constellation (1610), Tanzio da Varallo’s painting of David and Goliath (c. 1625), Francesco Borromini’s plans 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 a range of architectural designs by Aldo Rossi and his associates.

“Between past and present, between reality and imagination, the analogous city may simply be the city we design day by day—facing challenges and surmounting them, believing, with sound reason, that things will ultimately improve.” – Aldo Rossi on the Analogous City, in Lotus International n. 13, 1976.

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