The Story of Westbeth : Discovering the Abstract Lines of an Artists' Colony
This article takes the plan drawing of Richard Meier’s Westbeth Artists’ Colony in Greenwich Village as a lens through which to examine a chain of events that formalised what today is referred to as loft architecture. Westbeth was the first legal loft building in the USA. Approved by the local planning administration in March, 1968, and completed in May, 1970, the building was the successful culmi