Peggy DEAMER (Dr)

Peggy Deamer is Professor Emerita of Yale School of Architecture, a founding member of The Architecture Lobby, and principal of the firm Deamer Studio. 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, the author of Architecture and Labor, and a co-author of The Organizer’s Guide to Architecture Education.

Deamer’s theory works, and research explores the relationship between subjectivity, design, and labour in the current economy. She has taught at Princeton University, Barnard College, Columbia University, The Ohio State University, and the University of Kentucky. In New Zealand, where she served as Head of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland in 2007, she also taught at Unitec and Victoria University of Wellington.