Peggy Deamer, Architect & Professor
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 Research 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 and the forthcoming 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.
Negotiating Practice, Teaching, and Family
November 9, 2020
Many women start their own practice to have control over their schedules, which is invaluable when starting a family. In addition, they will pursue a teaching job to be part of a larger discourse beyond the office in which they work, and to supplement the perhaps precarious income it yields. Holding 3 jobs is not easy, and each job requires different skills and different roles. Peggy will discuss options of how to operate in those roles while also being a force for change, referencing her personal story. In each of those roles, one doesn’t want to merely survive, but, rather, model the better future we all want.