Analogous City

This augmented reality application enhances the museum exhibit on Aldo Rossi's Analogous City, a 1976 Venice Biennale artwork by Rossi, Consolascio, Reichlin, and Reinhart. The app complements a reproduction of The Analogous City (available at http://archizoom.epfl.ch), overlaying layered digital content referencing the original collage onto the artwork.

Essential for the exhibition "Aldo Rossi - The window of the poet, Prints 1973-1997" at the Bonnefanten Museum (Maastricht), Archizoom EPFL (Lausanne), and GAMeC (Bergamo), this application provides interactive engagement with the digital installation.

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

The Analogous City (La Città Analoga) was envisioned as a true urban design. Its components draw from diverse sources, including 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 Notre Dame du Haut chapel (1954), and various architectural designs by Rossi and his associates.

As Aldo Rossi himself described in Lotus International #13 (1976): “Bridging past and present, reality and imagination, the analogous city is perhaps simply the city we design daily, confronting and solving problems, with a reasonable expectation that the outcome will ultimately be improved.”