Architecture and Authorship

Architecture and Authorship comprises 16 essays that explore issues of authorship, attribution and intellectual property in architecture. The book examines how individual architects and movements, from the fifteenth century onwards, have endeavoured to maintain their status by defending what they see as their own unique territory—the origins and intentions of their work, and their signature style.

The book is a thoughtfully illustrated, alternative look at the history and culture of architecture. Historical case studies are combined with original research into themes of increasing importance to contemporary
architectural theory and practice. These include a prescient exploration of how systems and technology, rather than individual architects, order architecture and issues of indemnity, ownership, gender and the writing of history.

Written contributions from international experts in architecture, architectural history and design cover topics including domestic space; eighteenth century landscape gardens; the Berlin of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; postmodernism and the ‘Death of the Author’; as well as exploring the work of luminaries including Ernst Neufert, Richard Rogers, Norman Foster, Cedric Price and Lewis Carroll. Global in scope and far reaching in its implications, Architecture and Authorship is an erudite and fascinating book.