Lobbying for Architecture
Midtown Arts and Theater Center Houston (MATCH)
This lecture is available for one AIA/CES Learning Unit. Watch the lecture, download the pdf, and submit for credit.
Peggy Deamer, Professor at Yale University School of Architecture, presents the lecture "Lobbying for Architecture" at 7:00 p.m. at the MATCH as part of the PLAT and Rice Design Alliance Lecture Series: Sharing.
Peggy Deamer is a 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 Ph.D from Princeton University. The work of her firms has appeared in Dwell, The New York Times, Architectural Record and House and Garden, among others. Articles by Deamer have appeared in Assemblage, Praxis, Log, Perspecta, and Harvard Design Magazine, among other journals and anthologies. She is the editor of The Millennium House, Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present and The Architects 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 architectual design and labor. Her current research explores the relationship between subjectivity, design, and labor in the current economy.
The Rice Design Alliance 2018 Fall Lecture Series: Sharing is organized in collaboration with PLAT journal, with generous funding provided by the Humanities Research Center and the Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies' GradStarter program.