This application is a key component of a museum installation centered on Aldo Rossi, Eraldo Consolascio, Bruno Reichlin, and Fabio Reinhart's The Analogous City, a seminal artwork created for the 1976 Venice Biennale of Architecture. Utilizing augmented reality, the application enhances a reproduction of The Analogous City—available at http://archizoom.epfl.ch—by overlaying multiple interactive layers of contextual references onto the artwork itself.

This application is integral to the interactive digital installations for the exhibition "Aldo Rossi - The window of the poet, Prints 1973-1997," currently showing 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 for a recreation of the museum installation experience anytime, anywhere. This printed map includes essays by Aldo Rossi, Fabio Reinhart, and Dario Rodighiero.

The Analogous City (La Città Analoga) was envisioned as a fully realized urban 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 for 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, Lotus International, no. 13, 1976.