Peggy Deamer, Yale University
LECTURE TITLE: (Re)Building Architecture
This lecture will look at the problematic ways that we understand architectural work, examine the institutions that currently define that work, and consider how activist work – research, actions, and performance-based protests – can redirect the discipline.
Biography
Peggy Deamer is Professor Emerita of Yale University’s School of Architecture and principal of Deamer, Studio. She is the founding member of the Architecture Lobby, a group advocating for the value of architectural 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 and the forthcoming Architecture and Labor. Her theory work explores the relationship between subjectivity, design, and labor.