TéléchargerThank you for this rich and evocative description of The Analogous City and its accompanying augmented reality application. Here's a refined, museum-ready version of your text—ideal for exhibition panels, website copy, or promotional materials—that maintains the depth and poetic tone while enhancing clarity and flow:
The Analogous City: An Augmented Reality Experience
This application is a key component of The Analogous City, an iconic architectural artwork conceived by Aldo Rossi, Eraldo Consolascio, Bruno Reichlin, and Fabio Reinhart for the 1976 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Originally envisioned as a visionary urban collage, The Analogous City weaves together fragments of history, myth, and architectural imagination—uniting visions across centuries and disciplines.
Through augmented reality, this digital experience brings the physical reproduction of The Analogous City (available at archizoom.epfl.ch) to life. By scanning the printed map, users unlock layered digital annotations that reveal the full network of references embedded within the artwork. Each layer unfolds a different historical or conceptual thread—ranging from Vitruvius’ ideal city to Galileo’s drawing of the Pleiades, from Borromini’s San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane to Le Corbusier’s Notre-Dame du Haut, and from Renaissance masterpieces to Aldo Rossi’s own architectural poetics.
The application was developed to accompany 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. It transforms the static map into a living, evolving dialogue between past and future, reality and imagination.
By purchasing the printed map published by Archizoom, collectors and enthusiasts can recreate the full museum experience—anytime, anywhere. The map includes original texts by Aldo Rossi, Fabio Reinhart, and Dario Rodighiero, offering deep insights into the conceptual and philosophical foundations of the project.
"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
The Analogous City is not a blueprint for a future metropolis. Rather, it is a meditation on how architecture shapes memory, how history informs design, and how the city continues to be imagined, reimagined, and built—each day.
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