Peggy Deamer
Professor Emerita
Peggy Deamer is Professor of Architecture at Yale University. She is a principal in the firm of Deamer, Architects and before that, Deamer + Phillips, Architects. She received a B.Arch. from The Cooper Union and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. The work of her firms has appeared in Dwell, the New York Times; Architectural Record and House and Garden, amongst others. Articles by Deamer have appeared in Assemblage, Praxis, Log, Perspecta, and Harvard Design Magazine, amongst others journals and anthologies. She is the editor of The Millennium House, Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present and The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design. She is co-editor of Building in the Future: Recasting Architectural Labor, BIM in Academia, and Re-Reading Perspecta. She is the founding member of the Architecture Lobby, a group advocating for the value of architectural design and labor. Her current research explores the relationship between subjectivity, design, and labor in the current economy.
BArch Cooper Union
MA Princeton University
PhD Princeton University
Education
BA Oberlin CollegeBArch Cooper Union
MA Princeton University
PhD Princeton University
Practice
Peggy Deamer, Architect
Courses
2245
Fall 2022
Alternative Development Workshop
Peggy Deamer, Nicholas McDermott
1022
Spring 2021
Architectural Design 4
Aniket Shahane, Anthony Acciavatti, Peggy Deamer, Alicia Imperiale, Elisa Iturbe
1107
Fall 2017
Future-Proofing the Waterfront of Devonport, New Zealand
Peggy Deamer
3259a
Fall 2017
Architecture and Contemporary Labor
Peggy Deamer
1021
Fall 2016
Second-Year Core Studio
Emily Abruzzo, Peggy Deamer, Peter de Bretteville, Martin Finio, Tessa Kelly, M.J. Long, Joel Sanders
3259a
Fall 2016
Architecture and Contemporary Labor
Peggy Deamer
1022
Spring 2015
Second-Year Core Urbanism Studio
Peggy Deamer, Keller Easterling, Alexander Felson, Bimal Mendis, Alan Plattus
3213b
Spring 2015
Architecture and Capitalism
Peggy Deamer
4299
Spring 2015
Independent Course Work
Pier Vittorio Aureli, Peggy Deamer