Ana Miljački
Francis White Davis Professor of Architecture, MIT
Architectural Authorship on Trial: A Rehearsal
This lecturel will be an interactive meditation on architectural authorship. In 1996, a former temporary employee of OMA London, and a former student at the Architectural Association (AA), Gareth Pearce, filed copyright infringement complaints against Rem Koolhaas, OMA, Ove Arup, and the City of Rotterdam for an alleged direct copying of his thesis drawings for the production of the Kunsthal. In this event and with the help of the audience I will recount the history of this court-case, which reveals a profound misalignment between the realities of architectural practice, and the persistent, colloquial, as well as juridical understanding of author as solely responsible and exclusively deserving of credit for the production of a unique work.
