"When trucking company owner Malcolm McLean invented the shipping container in the 1930’s, he probably had no idea that he had also provided the world with a source of inexpensive, rugged, and easily adapted housing. Seventy years later, most shipping container architecture has coalesced into two ghettoes: the more refined pre-fab houses, gallery pieces, and theoretical studies constructed and conducted by firms such as Lo/Tek and MVRDV; and the abandoned, jerry-rigged containers squatted and claimed as home by refugees and others in the developing world."
