This application is a key component of a museum installation centered around Aldo Rossi, Eraldo Consolascio, Bruno Reichlin, and Fabio Reinhart's artwork, The Analogous City, originally presented at the 1976 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Utilizing augmented reality, the application enhances a reproduction of The Analogous City (available at http://archizoom.epfl.ch), overlaying interactive layers of references onto the artwork itself.
Essential for engaging with the digital installation, this application is featured in the exhibition "Aldo Rossi - The Window of the Poet, Prints 1973-1997," currently at the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht, Archizoom EPFL in Lausanne, and GAMeC in Bergamo.
Purchasing the Archizoom-published map reproduction of The Analogous City allows you to recreate the museum installation experience anytime, anywhere. This printed map includes texts by Aldo Rossi, Fabio Reinhart, and Dario Rodighiero.
The Analogous City (La Città Analoga) was conceived as a true urban design project. Its composite elements include, but are not limited to: 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 (ca. 1625); Francesco Borromini's plan of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (1638-1641); the Dufour topographic map (1864); Le Corbusier's general plan of the Notre Dame du Haut chapel (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, Lotus International, no. 13, 1976.
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