apartments
architecture lobby

A Response to AIA Values   Avery Review

The Architect as Activist

the Architecture Lobby

Architecture Lobby Stages a Radical Alternative to the AIA Conference

The Architecture Lobby, the Bernie Sanders of Architecture? - Metropolis

Asymmetric Labor: The Economy of Architecture in Theory and Practice

Follow The Money | ARPA Journal

For an Architecture of Radical Democracy   Issue 7

Identifying the Architect as Worker

Lobbying for Value

Other Nations Professional Architectural Associations

(re)Working Architecture

Rzut Magazin-Deamer/Cayer interview

articles

Cooperativizing Small Firms

Contracts of Relation   e-flux

Education

Follow the Money

Introduction to Architecture and Capitalism

Introduction to Architecture and Labor

Introduction to The Architect as Worker

Other Nations Professional Architectural Associations

Radical Democracy

(Un)Free Work

bim

BIM and Contemporary Labor   Pidgin 15

BIM in Academia Introduction   Spring 2010

Parametric Schizophrenia

Intergated Training for Integrated Practice

Marx, BIM and Contemporary Labor_Kensek.pdf

bio

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 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 and the author of Architecture and Labor. Articles by her have appeared in Log, Avery Review, e-Flux, and Harvard Design Magazine amongst other journals. Her theory work explores the relationship between subjectivity, design, and labor in the current economy. Her design work has appeared in HOME, Home and Garden, Progressive Architecture, and the New York Times amongst other journals. She received the Architectural Record 2018 Women in Architecture Activist Award and the 2021 John Q. Hejduk Award.

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contact

email
peggy.deamer@yale.edu

office
440 kent avenue, 11A
brooklyn, ny 11211
212 203 9860

craft

Architectural Craft and Contemporary Labor

Detail Deliberations

Detail: The Subject of the Object   March 20, 2000

cv

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interviews

The Architectural Imperative

Interview with Graham Cairns

Podcast: DEMANDING MORE FROM DESIGN EDUCATION

Podcast: Transparent Value; A Conversation with Architecture Lobby's Peggy Deamer and Shota Vashakmadze

offices
op-eds

Opinion: Architects Gone Missing - The New York Times

Opinion: The Architects’ Role - The New York Times

Opinion: Invitation to a Dialogue/ Less Ego in Architects - The New York Times

Opinion: The ‘Starchitect’ Stereotype - The New York Times

Opinion: Architecture and the Border Wall - Architectural Record

prefab
proposals
publications

The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design
peggy deamer, editor
published by Bloomsbury Press

Architecture and Capitalism: 1845-Present
Peggy Deamer, editor
Routledge

BIM in Academia
Peggy Deamer and Phillip Bernstein, editors
published by Yale School of Architecture

Building (in) the Future: Recasting Architecture Labor
Peggy Deamer and Phillip Bernstein, editors
published by Princeton Architectural Press

the millennium house
peggy deamer, editor
yale school of architecture book
published by monacelli press

reviews

Review of Maurizio Lazzarato's The Making of the Indebted Man: An Essay on the Neoliberal Condition and Governing by Debt   Real Review 1

Educating Architects: How Tomorrow’s Practitioners Will Learn Today, edited by Neil Spiller

Interview with Patrik Schumacher- A Response by Peggy Deamer

Review of K. Michael Hays, Architecture’s Desire: Reading the Late Avant-Garde and Pier Vittorio Aureli, The Possibility of an Absolute Architecture

schools
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stokes

Adrian Stokes: Surface Form and (Dis)Content

Adrian Stokes: The Architecture of Phantasy

Adrian Stokes: Surface Suicide

storage
tedx

Architecture and labor: Peggy Deamer at TEDxCalArts