HerunterladenThank you for this rich and evocative description of The Analogous City and its accompanying augmented reality application. Here's a refined, exhibition-ready version of your text—polished for clarity, tone, and impact—ideal for use in museum labels, digital platforms, or printed materials accompanying the Archizoom map:
The Analogous City: An Augmented Reality Experience
This application is a key component of The Analogous City, an architectural artwork conceived by Aldo Rossi, Eraldo Consolascio, Bruno Reichlin, and Fabio Reinhart for the 1976 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Originally envisioned as a living collage of urban memory and imagination, The Analogous City brings together fragments of architectural history, myth, science, and poetic vision.
Through augmented reality, this app transforms the physical reproduction of the artwork—available as a limited-edition map from Archizoom—into an immersive, layered experience. By scanning the printed map, users unlock hidden references embedded within the collage: architectural drawings, celestial maps, historical plans, and artistic interpretations, each revealed on its own translucent plane suspended above the surface.
The installation invites viewers to explore a city not built in space, but composed in time—where the 16th-century drawing of Vitruvius’ ideal city by Giovanni Battista Caporali (1536) overlaps with Galileo’s 1610 sketch of the Pleiades, where Borromini’s San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane (1638–1641) stands beside Le Corbusier’s 1954 plan for Notre-Dame du Haut, and where Aldo Rossi’s own projects emerge as both memory and prophecy.
"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, Lotus International, n. 13, 1976
This app is essential for engaging with the digital exhibition Aldo Rossi – The Window of the Poet, Prints 1973–1997, presented at the Bonnefanten Museum (Maastricht), Archizoom EPFL (Lausanne), and GAMeC (Bergamo). By purchasing the Archizoom map edition, you can recreate this dynamic, multi-layered experience anytime, anywhere—transforming a printed page into a living archive of architectural thought.
The map includes original texts by Aldo Rossi, Fabio Reinhart, and Dario Rodighiero, offering deeper insight into the conceptual and historical foundations of this enduring urban dream.
The Analogous City is not a finished city. It is a method. A way of thinking. A way of building.
And now, through augmented reality, it is also a way of seeing.
Let me know if you'd like a shorter version for a website, a QR code label, or a multilingual adaptation.
