This application is a component of a museum installation exploring the Analogous City.

This application is part of a museum installation about The Analogous City, an artwork by Aldo Rossi, Eraldo Consolascio, Bruno Reichlin, and Fabio Reinhart, created for the 1976 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Using augmented reality, the app works in conjunction with a reproduction of The Analogous City—available at http://archizoom.epfl.ch—by displaying the complete references of the collage across multiple layers suspended above the artwork.

The application is required to interact with the digital installation for 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 purchasing the reproduction in the form of a map of the Analogous City published by Archizoom, you can recreate the museum installation experience anytime and anywhere. The printed map features texts by Aldo Rossi, Fabio Reinhart, and Dario Rodighiero.

The Analogous City (La Città Analoga) was conceived as a comprehensive urban project. Its composition includes, among other elements, Giovanni Battista Caporali's Drawing of Vitruvius’ city (1536), Galileo Galilei's drawing of the Pleiades Constellation (1610), Tanzio da Varallo's painting David and Goliath (c. 1625), Francesco Borromini's plan of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (1638-1641), the Dufour topographic map (1864), Le Corbusier's general plan for the chapel of Notre Dame du Haut (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.