Peggy Deamer

Peggy Deamer is professor emerita of architecture at Yale University and principal in the firm of Deamer, Studio.  She is a founding member of the Architecture Lobby, a group advocating for the value of architectural design and labor. Deamer 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. Her articles appear in Log, Avery Review, e-Flux, and Harvard Design Magazine, and her design work has appeared in HOME, Home and Garden, Progressive Architecture, and the New York Times. She received the Architectural Record 2018 Women in Architecture Activist Award and the 2021 John Q. Hejduk Award. Her current work explores architectural subjectivity, labor, and the current economy.