Architecture Lobby’s Peggy Deamer: Organizing/Work
November 19, 2025 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
4919 Frew Street
College of Fine Art, Room 111
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Join us in the STUDIO on Wednesday November 19th at 5:30 PM for a lecture by Peggy Dreamer, presented by CM Architecture.

Peggy Deamer is Professor Emerita of Yale University’s School of Architecture where she taught studio/design and contemporary theory seminars. She got her BA from Oberlin College (philosophy), her BArch from The Cooper Union, and her PhD from Princeton University. She has also taught at Princeton School of Architecture, Columbia GSAPP, Barnard College, Parsons School of Design, and been a visiting professor at Unitec, Auckland University, and Victoria University in New Zealand. She is principal in the firm of Deamer, Studio. She is the co-editor with Robert AM Stern and Alan Plattus of (Re)Reading Perspecta, and co-editor with Phillip Bernstein of Building (in) the Future (Princeton Architectural Press) and BIM in Academia (Yale School of Architecture). She is the editor of Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present (Routledge), The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design (Bloomsbury), the author of Architecture and Labor (Routledge), and most recently the co-author with six other women of The Organizer’s Guide to Architecture Education (Routledge). Articles by her have appeared in Log, Avery Review, e-Flux, and Harvard Design Magazine amongst other journals. She is the founding member of the Architecture Lobby, a group advocating for the value of architectural design and labor.
