Wright Chat

Using the "measure distance" tool on the Atlas of Canada website, I calculated that the island measures roughly 1700' x 750' The house is situated on the westernmost promontary of the island. There seems to be something like 3 cottages on that island. William Storrer states that the house ...

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Here is where the Pitkin residence's (1900) island is situated, from:

1. The Atlas of Canada

2. Google Earth map

[quote="RJH"]These Monographs are great! On the paper cover of my copies it says that Vol. 1-11 were originally sold for 18,000 JPY each. Today, that

Not much around about this late work: http://www.sidesways.com/fllw/olfelt.php

Sergeant, p 40, speaks of "the twenty-six completed Usonians, and some thirty-one unbuilt Usonian house projects of the prewar period. . ." That's interesting, I was just reading Gwendolyn Wright's text: "Frank Lloyd Wright and the domestic landscape" in the 1994 MOMA book publi...

Thanks SDR



I would tend to agree with EJ then.

Does Sergeant list criterias? Did Wright ever clearly define "Usonian"?

[quote="RJH"]I am not a big fan of the Burns documentary either. But it was really the only source where I ever heard someone actually come out and state a number. I don

1. Bet away... This is in any case totally irrelevant to this debate anyways, as it would bring the rights duration to 2065 instead of 2047 (as stated before). :? We have otherwise no idea what the Author-Publisher Agreement could have been here, although there are many 'standard' contractual terms...

I AM NOT AGAINST YOU... This being said, 1. False GA is a Tokyo, Japan publisher, publishing books in both English & Japanese (side-by-side). They then distribute throughout the world. Like a majority of publishers do... GA doesn't have a US publishing office. It is not because it has english te...

Rudolph's text is taken from here: http://www.ga-ada.co.jp/english/ga_original/ga02.html The work was copyrighted in 1970 by A.D.A. EDITA Tokyo Co., Ltd. (as quoted by SDR & according to Fair Use regulation!). Since this publication is Japanese, only the Berne Convention could apply here... Acco...

2nd try...





1st off, I read that there is very little case law regarding architectural work...





This being said, in [url=http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#102]

Don't you have tools & a few planks SDR?

I'd ask a lawyer first SDR



Wright has heirs (alive)...



This is also interesting: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain#Expiration

You are right, these buildings cannot be registered: Copyright Claims in Architectural Works - Eligible Works



Does this mean they are not protected?

Deke, this might help:



The American Institute of Architects - Understanding Intellectual Property Laws

The U.S. Copyright Act affords protection for