{"product_id":"prior-art-isbn-9780262048958","title":"Prior Art","description":"\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking text on the history of the use of patents in architecture.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlthough patents existed in Renaissance Italy and even in Confucian thought, it was not until the middle third of the nineteenth century that architects embraced the practice of patenting in significant numbers. Patents could ensure, as they did for architects’ engineering brethren, the economic and cultural benefits afforded by exclusive intellectual property rights. But patent culture was never directly translatable to the field of architecture, which tended to negotiate issues of technological innovation in the context of the more abstract issues of artistic influence and formal expression. In \u003ci\u003ePrior Art,\u003c\/i\u003e scholar Peter Christensen offers the first full-scale monographic treatment of this complex relationship between art and invention.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristensen’s method, a site-oriented approach steeped in multinational and multilingual archival work, is geared toward unifying fractured global histories of architectural patents through the distinct union of architectural, cultural, and legal history. \u003ci\u003ePrior Art\u003c\/i\u003e offers a record of the marriage of intellectual property and architectural invention—a momentous, understudied, and still underutilized aspect of architectural culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—and the ways in which it influenced how buildings are conceived, designed, engineered, constructed, and promoted.Introduction\u003cbr\u003e1 The Home\u003cbr\u003e2 The Studio\u003cbr\u003e3 The Corporate Lab\u003cbr\u003e4 The Repository\u003cbr\u003e5 The Patent Office\u003cbr\u003e6 The Courtroom\u003cbr\u003e7 The Commons\u003cbr\u003eCoda\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eList of Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndexPeter Christensen is the Arthur Satz Professor of the Humanities, the Ani and Mark Gabrellian Director of the Humanities Center and Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Rochester. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eGermany and the Ottoman Railway Network\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePrecious Metal\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303413698789,"sku":"NP9780262048958","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262048958.jpg?v=1767735131","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/prior-art-isbn-9780262048958","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}