This volume provides examples that illustrate how the loft trend is applied today, from huge industrial spaces to small premises where architects have to fake the fullest possible advantage of the spatial possibilities to create a feeling of greater expansiveness This is nor to ignore those lofts that still follow the now-classic American model of large factory spaces converted info homes, which exerted such a strong influence on the loft movement in cities like London and Berlin; this book, however, has opened up the range of perspectives with spaces that establish more private areas alongside other larger, more open ones, thereby contributing to the reinvention and updating of the loft concept.