Peggy Deamer

Peggy Deamer (née: Margaret Deamer; born February 15, 1950) is an architect, architectural educator, and Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Yale University.[1] Her research explores the nature of creative work, stretching from a psychoanalytic interpretation of art production and reception – initiated in the dissertation on Adrian Stokes, who was analyzed by Melanie Klein – to neo-Marxist examinations of creative labor. She is the founding member of the international advocacy group, The Architecture Lobby (TAL).[2]

Biography

Deamer received BA from Oberlin College, a B.Arch. from Cooper Union and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. [3] Her dissertation was on the British art critic, Adrian Stokes. She has taught at Princeton University, Barnard College, Columbia University, Ohio State University, University of Kentucky. In New Zealand, where she was the Head of the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of Auckland in 2007, she taught at Unitec and Victoria University, but resigned from Auckland after five months.[4] She has been a board member of Storefront for Art and Architecture and the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation and is currently on the board of Perspecta: The Yale Journal of Architecture and a member of ArchiteXX.

Projects

Montauk House, Montauk, NY, 1999 (Deamer+Phillips)[5]

Waccabuc House Addition, Waccabuc, NY, 2003 (Deamer+Phillips)

Kaiwaka House, New Zealand, 2016 (Deamer Studio)[6]

Awards

John Q. Hejduk Award, Cooper Union, 2021[7]

Artist Residency, "Labor," Santa Fe Art Institute, 2020[8]

Publications

Books

  • Author, Architecture and Labor. 2020. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-367-34350-7
  • Editor, The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design. 2015. Bloomsburg Press. ISBN 978-1-4725-7049-9
  • Editor, Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present. 2014. Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-53488-8
  • Editor with Phillip Bernstein, BIM in Academia. 2011. Yale School of Architecture. ISBN 978-0-9826385-8-3
  • Editor with Phillip Bernstein, Building in the Future: Recasting Architectural Labor. 2010. Princeton Architecture Press. ISBN 978-1-56898-806-1

Articles

Recent articles include “Office Management,” in OfficeUS’s Agenda, “Work” in Perspecta 47, “The Changing Nature of Architectural Work,” in Design Practices Now Vol II, The Harvard Design Magazine no. 33;[9] “Detail Deliberation,” in Building (in) the Future: Recasting Labor in Architecture; and “Practicing Practice,” in Perspecta 44.[10] Her writing on architecture, design and psychoanalysis include “Adrian Stokes: Surface Suicide” in Architecture Post Mortem: The Diastolic Architecture of Decline, Dystopia, and Death (Ashgate, Donald Kunze, Editor),[11] “Adrian Stokes: The Architecture of Phantasy and the Phantasy of Architecture, Architecture and Psychoanalysis: The Annuals of Psychoanalysis, and “Subject/Object/Text” in Drawing/Building/Text, (Princeton Architectural Press, Andrea Kahn, ed.)[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Walker, Enrique, 1967- (2006). Tschumi on architecture : conversations with Enrique Walker. Tschumi, Bernard, 1944-. New York, N.Y.: Monacelli Press. ISBN 978-1-58093-182-3. OCLC 76894560.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. ^ Median, Samuel. "Meet the Architecture Lobby". Metropolis Magazine. Archived from the original on 25 February 2015. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  3. ^ a b "Peggy Deamer". Yale Architecture. Retrieved 2019-03-22.
  4. ^ "Cracks appearing in the foundation". NZ Herald. 2024-09-23. Retrieved 2024-09-23.
  5. ^ "Driven by Hope: Peggy Deamer on Navigating Teaching, Negotiating Parenthood, and Developing a Legacy". Madame Architect. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
  6. ^ "Kaiwaka House | Deamer Architects". Archello. Retrieved 2023-03-21.
  7. ^ Lynch, Mary (2020-12-09). "Alumni Profile: Peggy Deamer AR'77". Cooper Union Alumni Association. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
  8. ^ "Peggy Deamer". Santa Fe Art Institute. Retrieved 2023-03-20.
  9. ^ Deamer, Peggy (Fall 2010). "The Changing Nature of Architectural Work". The Harvard Design Magazine. II (33). Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  10. ^ Deamer, Peggy. "Detail Deliberation". Perspecta. Retrieved 2 March 2015.
  11. ^ Deamer, Peggy (2013). Adrian Stokes: Surface Suicide. Ashgate. ISBN 978-1-4094-6221-7. Retrieved 2 March 2015.


  • Peggy Deamer, Architect [1]
  • Emeritus Professor, Yale University [2]
  • The Architecture Lobby [3]
  • ArchiteXX [4]