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Peggy Deamer

Peggy Deamer

Brooklyn, NY, US

 

About 

Peggy Deamer is Professor Emerita of Yale University’s School of Architecture and principal in the firm of Deamer, Studio. She is the founding member and the Content Coordinator 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 and The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design.  She is co-editor of Building in the Future: Recasting Architectural Labor; BIM in Academia; and Re-Reading Perspecta. Articles by her have appeared in Log, Avery Review, e-Flux, and Harvard Design Magazineamongst other journals.Her work explores the relationship between subjectivity, design, and labor in the current economy.

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Peggy's Featured Articles on Archinect

The Architecture Lobby's Statement on Unpaid Internships, Thu, Apr 25 '19

Over the last few weeks, the question of unpaid internships in architecture has blown up across industry media. The Architecture Lobby is pleased to see an issue we’ve been raising for a long time gain traction in the mainstream. And, we’re pleased to see concrete changes being made: the ...

The Architecture Lobby's Statement on Unpaid Internships
 

Employment 

Deamer Studio, Brooklyn, NY, US, Principal

Jan 2002 - current
 

Education 

Princeton University, PhD, Architecture

Sep 1981 - Nov 1988
 

The Cooper Union, New York, NY, US, BArch, Architecture

Sep 1973 - Jun 1977
 

Areas of Specialization