Terms of Appropriation

Part I
Authorship

Timothy Hyde

Michael Kubo

Kenny Cupers

Part II
Transfer

Vladimir Kuli

Ana Miljaki

Esra Akcan

Part III
Rights

Ines Weizman

Sarah M. Hirschman

Kevin Emerson Collins

Part IV
Re-enactments

Amanda Reeser Lawrence

David Rifkind

Winnie Wong

La-Catherine Szacka

Esra Akcan is Associate Professor in the Department of Architecture at Cornell University. She completed her architecture degree at METU in Turkey, and her PhD and postdoctoral degrees at Columbia University. She is the author of Architecture in Translation (Duke), Turkey: Modern Architectures in History (Reaktion, with S. Bozdoan), eviride Modern Olan (YKY), (Land)Fill Istanbul (124/3), and over a hundred articles in multiple languages. She is the recipient of awards from the American Academy and the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin, Getty, Clark, CCA, Graham, Mellon, UIC, DAAD, and KRESS/ARIT. Her forthcoming book is Open Architecture.

Kevin Emerson Collins is Professor of Law and Director of the Intellectual Property and Technology Law program at the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis. He writes regularly on patent protection for software and biotechnology, and he is the author of a forthcoming book on the intellectual property of architecture. Before becoming a legal academic, he earned a MArch from Columbia University and worked as a project architect with Bernard Tschumi Architects.

Kenny Cupers is Associate Professor in the History and Theory of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of Basel. He is the author of The Social Project: Housing Postwar France (2014), editor of Use Matters: An Alternative History of Architecture (2013), and co-author of Spaces of Uncertainty (2002).

Sarah M. Hirschman is an architect in practice in San Francisco and LeFevre Emerging Practitioner Fellow at the Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State University. She was founding director of the Keller Gallery at the Massachusetts Institute of Technologys Department of Architecture and co-curator with Ana Miljaki of Un/Fair Use, an exhibition about architectural copyright, shown at the Center for Architecture in New York in 2015 and at UC Berkeleys Wurster Gallery in 2016. Research for this text was conducted with funding from the Lawrence B. Anderson Award.

Timothy Hyde is Associate Professor of Architectural History at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Constitutional Modernism: Architecture and Civil Society in Cuba, 19331959 and is the chair of the Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative.

Michael Kubo is Assistant Professor at the University of Houston. His dissertation, titled Architecture Incorporated: Authorship, Anonymity, and Collaboration in Postwar Modernism, examines The Architects Collaborative and the rise of the architectural corporation after 1945. His publications include Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston (2015) and OfficeUS Atlas (2015).

Vladimir Kuli (Florida Atlantic University) is an architectural historian, critic, and curator. His past and current projects include Modernism In-Between: The Mediatory Architectures of Socialist Yugoslavia (2012), an exhibition on Yugoslav architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2018), and an edited volume on postmodernism in the former socialist world (2018).

David Rifkind holds degrees from the Boston Architectural Center (BArch), McGill University (MArch), and Columbia University (PhD). He teaches courses in architectural history, theory, and design at Florida International University. His research deals with the relationships between politics, culture, and the built environment since the late nineteenth century, with special emphasis on Italy and Ethiopia.