Lofting Movement...

I really want to build a house.., but I want it to be just of seel and glass.., so I was searching the web and found this interesting article about the "lofting movement", it talks about how it began and became what it is today..

"....My first hint of a better, more efficient, way of housing came with the discovery of the Lofting Movement. In the 1970s the wave of urban decay that spread across the industrialized countries resulted in an interesting phenomenon. Artists, always compelled to live efficiently by virtue of an alternately feast-or-famine self-employment income, began to explore abandoned urban industrial/commercial structures in search of low cost live/work space within the urban cultural centers they have always tended to congregate in. Pooling their resources, groups of artists purchased some of these obsolete buildings and turned them into mini-communities, partitioning them into private residence spaces and shared studios and galleries. The novel environments these creative people made for themselves from these spartan structures attracted the attention of architectural and interior designers who came to appreciate the freedom of creative expression afforded by large simple clear-span spaces. Once publicized in the media, this concept went mainstream and became the basis of a kind of ad-hoc urban renewal driven by the needs of a new generation of young urban professionals migrating to the cities in response to a resurgence in corporate growth and white collar work opportunity. Thus was born the Lofting Movement and today we see the seemingly peculiar phenomenon of new industrial style buildings created specifically to serve as residential loft housing...."

Extracted from: http://radio.weblogs.com/0119080/stories/2003/02/08/gallerysimplicityAndPavili.html