This augmented reality application enhances a museum installation centered around Aldo Rossi, Eraldo Consolascio, Bruno Reichlin, and Fabio Reinhart's The Analogous City, a seminal artwork from the 1976 Venice Biennale of Architecture. The app, used in conjunction with a reproduction of The Analogous City (available at http://archizoom.epfl.ch), overlays digital layers onto the artwork, revealing the complete source material of the collage.
Essential for interacting with the digital installation at the Aldo Rossi - The window of the poet, Prints 1973-1997 exhibition at Bonnefanten Museum (Maastricht), Archizoom EPFL (Lausanne), and GAMeC (Bergamo), this application offers a unique interactive experience. Purchasing the Archizoom-published map reproduction of The Analogous City allows users to recreate this experience anytime, anywhere. This printed map includes texts by Aldo Rossi, Fabio Reinhart, and Dario Rodighiero.
Conceived as a genuine urban project, The Analogous City (La Città Analoga) incorporates diverse elements: 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.”
