Professor Emerita of Architecture at Yale University and principal at Deamer, Architects.
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Architecture and Labor by
Through a collection of 13 chapters, Peggy Deamer examines the profession of architecture not as an abstraction, but as an assemblage of architectural workers. What forces prevent architects from empowering ourselves to be more relevant and better rewarded? How can these forces be set aside by new narratives, new organizations and new methods of production? How can we sit at the decision-making table to combat short-term real estate interests for longer-term social and ethical value? How can we pull architecture--its conceptualization, its pedagogy, and its enactment--into the 21st century without succumbing to its neoliberal paradigm? In addressing these controversial questions, Architecture and Labor brings contemporary discourses on creative labor to architecture, a discipline devoid of labor consciousness. This book addresses how, not just what, architects produce and focuses not on the past but on the present. It is sympathetic to the particularly intimate way that architects approach their design work while contextualizing that work historically, institutionally, economically, and ideologically. Architecture and Labor is sure to be a compelling read for pre-professional students, academics, and practitioners.
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Architecture of the Everyday by | Selected Articles & Publications | Availability |
| Deamer, Peggy. 2020. "Cooperativizing Small Firms." Log 48: Expanding Modes of Practice. United States: Anyone Corporation, 2020. | Online - Full Text |
| Peggy Deamer, Lohren Deeg, Taylor Metz, and Richard Tursky. 2020. “Design Pedagogy: The New Architectural Studio and Its Consequences.” Architecture_MPS, August. | Full Text - KSU Library |
| Deamer, Peggy. “Beyond Architecture: 'For an Architecture of Radical Democracy' with Manuel Shvartzberg” Essay. In Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present. New York: Routledge, 2014. | Online - Full Text |
| Riccardo M. Villa. 2018. “Peggy Deamer, The Architect as Worker. Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design.” Ardeth 2 (March): 299. | Full Text - KSU Library |
| Deamer, Peggy. (2018). (Un)Free Work: Architecture, Labour and Self-Determination. Architectural Design. 88. 16-23. 10.1002/ad.2296. | Online - Full Text |
| Deamer, Peggy. 2017. "Contracts of Relation." e-flux Architecture. | Online - Full Text |
| Deamer, Peggy. “Other Nations’ Professional Architectural Associations: International Architectural Associations: Comparisons and Concerns.” Essay. In Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present. New York: Routledge, 2014. | Online - Full Text |
| Deamer, Peggy. 2011. “Practicing Practice.” Perspecta 44 (January): 160–203. | Full Text - KSU Library |
| Deamer, Peggy. 2010. “A Conversation with Peggy Deamer.” Perspecta 43 (January): 62–64. | Full Text - KSU Library |
| Deamer, Peggy. 2005. “First Year: The Fictions of Studio Design.” Perspecta 36 (January): 10–16. | Full Text - KSU Library |
This guide was created with resources available through Kent State University Libraries or freely online. They were compiled by Samantha Hurst for the Joseph F Morbito Architectural Library in August 2022.
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