Luca Frei

Beaubourgs are appearing here, there and everywhere. The last to date are those in areas 13005 and 37000. Abroad, those in CH 1007 and GB RG9 3AU and, from memory, the neighbourhood of San Vito in Milan, entirely beaubourgised, the Halls of Miracles of our days. In France alone, in numerous cities in the provinces where there are usually good relations between those elected and the owners of land that can be built on and where there is more on offer than need for industries wanting to establish themselves, local councils easily let go of building sites and hangars. We are also looking for old factories, rent-controlled housing that nobody wants any more, abandoned cooperative basements, which are easy to transform on the inside (the walls, that which concerns the external world, are of no importance to us). Albert Meister, The so-called utopia of the centre beaubourg: An interpretation by Luca Frei, Book Works, London 2007