The Development Of SOHO And The Evolvement Of Its Connotation

SOHO as a dwelling type has been popular in various countries since the 1990's, as well as been paid broad attention to as a working. The development and evolvement of its meaning was analyzed in the paper.SOHO was onomatopoeia as it emerged. It became a place name firstly in England, then in the America and Hong Kong of the Republic of China.Transformation occurred in the habitude and inhabitants of these quarters. Status and cultural connotation of the quarters has been formed gradually in this period, while SOHO of New York got a specifically relationship with the later to come SOHO as a dwelling type for its peculiarity: the influx of artists and their alteration of the loft into habitation.