Francis Aguillard, a Rice Architecture graduate student and editor of PLAT 7.0: Sharing, spoke with Peggy Deamer, professor at the Yale University School of Architecture and founder of the Architecture Lobby, before her upcoming lecture this Wednesday, October 10, as part of the Rice Design Alliance and Plat Journal Lecture Series: Sharing. To hear a short clip from Rice Architecture's new podcast, Tête-à-Tête, click here or you can listen to the entire episode by clicking here.

Peggy Deamer is a professor emerita at Yale University School of Architecture and principal at Deamer Architects. She is the founding member of the Architecture Lobby, a group advocating for the value of architectural design in our communities as well as labor and workers' rights within the field of architecture. She is the editor of Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present and co-editor of Building in Future: Recasting Architectural Labor and BIM in Academia, among other publications. Most recently, the Architecture Lobby hosted a National Think-In around the theme of "Infrastructure," addressing topics such as "Cities and Capital," "Climate Change," and the "#MeToo" movement. More info about the Architecture Lobby, as well as their manifesto, can be found on their website, at architecture-lobby.org.

Francis Aguillard is an urbanist and, before coming to Rice University, was a Fulbright Scholar at the London School of Economics & Political Science, where he completed an M.Sc. in City Design & Social Science and wrote his thesis on co-living. He also graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a Bachelor of Science in Architecture. Francis was an editor-in-chief for PLAT 7.0 Sharing, an independent student-led architecture journal supported by Rice Architecture.

Tête-à-Tête is a new podcast series hosted and directed by Aylin Nazli and produced by Aylin Nazli and Rose Wilkowski, M.Arch. students at Rice Architecture.

Special thanks to Peggy Deamer, Francis Aguillard, Maria Nicanor, Shawna Forney, Sarah Whiting, and all that were involved.

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