Analogous City

This application forms part of a museum installation exploring the Analogous City.

This application is a component of a museum installation dedicated to The Analogous City, an artwork by Aldo Rossi, Eraldo Consolascio, Bruno Reichlin, and Fabio Reinhart, created for the 1976 Venice Biennale of Architecture. An augmented reality tool, it works in tandem with a reproduction of The Analogous City—available at http://archizoom.epfl.ch—to display the complete references embedded within the collage across different layers suspended over the artwork.

The app is required to interact with the digital installation for the exhibition "Aldo Rossi - The window of the poet, Prints 1973-1997," presented at the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, Archizoom EPFL in Lausanne, and GAMeC in Bergamo.

By purchasing the reproduction in the form of a map of the Analogous City published by Archizoom, you can recreate the museum installation interaction anytime, anywhere. The printed map features 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, among others, The Drawing of Vitruvius’ city by Giovanni Battista Caporali (1536), a drawing of the Pleiades Constellation by Galileo Galilei (1610), David and Goliath, a painting by Tanzio da Varallo (circa 1625), the plan of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane by Francesco Borromini (1638–1641), the Dufour topographic map (1864), the general plan for the chapel of Notre Dame du Haut by Le Corbusier (1954), and various architectural projects by Aldo Rossi and his collaborators.

“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.” – Aldo Rossi on the Analogous City, in Lotus International n. 13, 1976.