Working on Work
Peggy Deamer
Peggy Deamer is Professor Emerita of Yale University’s School of Architecture. She has also taught at The Cooper Union, Parsons, Princeton University, Barnard College, The School of Architecture and Planning at Auckland University. She has lectured widely on issues related to labor, design, and subjectivity and organized events and publications that emphasize the misunderstood worth of architectural workers. She is the principal in the firm of Deamer, Studio. She is a founding member of the Architecture Lobby, a group advocating for the value of architectural design and labor. She is the editor of “Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present” (Routledge, 2014) and “The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design’ (Bloomsbury, 2016) and the author of “Architecture and Labor” (Routledge, 2020). She received the Architectural Record 2018 Women in Architecture Activist Award and the 2021 John Q. Hejduk Award.
Peggy Deamer is Professor Emerita of Yale University’s School of Architecture. She has also taught at The Cooper Union, Parsons, Princeton University, Barnard College, The School of Architecture and Planning at Auckland University. She has lectured widely on issues related to labor, design, and subjectivity and organized events and publications that emphasize the misunderstood worth of architectural workers. She is the principal in the firm of Deamer, Studio. She is a founding member of the Architecture Lobby, a group advocating for the value of architectural design and labor. She is the editor of “Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present” (Routledge, 2014) and “The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design’ (Bloomsbury, 2016) and the author of “Architecture and Labor” (Routledge, 2020). She received the Architectural Record 2018 Women in Architecture Activist Award and the 2021 John Q. Hejduk Award.