Peggy Deamer
Peggy Deamer is an architect, architectural educator, and Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Yale University. Her research explores the nature of creative work, stretching from a psychoanalytic interpretation of art production and reception – initiated in the dissertation on Adrian Stokes, who was analyzed by Melanie Klein – to neo-Marxist examinations of creative labor. She is the founding member of the international advocacy group, The Architecture Lobby (TAL).
Biography
Deamer received BA from Oberlin College, a B.Arch. from Cooper Union and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. Her dissertation was on the British art critic, Adrian Stokes. She has taught at Princeton University, Barnard College, Columbia University, Ohio State University, University of Kentucky. In New Zealand, where she was the Head of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland in 2007, she taught at Unitec and Victoria University, but resigned from Auckland after five months. She has been a board member of Storefront for Art and Architecture and the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation and is currently on the board of Perspecta: The Yale Journal of Architecture and a member of ArchiteXX.Projects
Montauk House, Montauk, NY, 1999Waccabuc House Addition, Waccabuc, NY, 2003
Kaiwaka House, New Zealand, 2016
Awards
John Q. Hejduk Award, Cooper Union, 2021Artist Residency, "Labor," Santa Fe Art Institute, 2020
Publications
Books
- Author, Architecture and Labor. 2020. Routledge.
- Editor, The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design. 2015. Bloomsburg Press.
- Editor, Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present. 2014. Routledge.
- Editor with Phillip Bernstein, BIM in Academia. 2011. Yale School of Architecture.
- Editor with Phillip Bernstein, Building in the Future: Recasting Architectural Labor. 2010. Princeton Architecture Press.