Who authors and owns a space? Who authors and owns its appearances and sensations? Who, in turn, has the right to preserve or transform it? Disputes over the authorship and ownership of architectural design in the realm of intellectual property law can give us indications of the limits of these questions, or at least illuminate one important battleground on which they can be contested. In 1990, under the obligations of the Berne Convention, American copyright protection was extended to architectural works for the first time. Under the act, a Yale University architecture student, Thomas Shine, sued David Childs, a partner at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.
in Future Anterior, 9:1, 2012
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