The Diane Lewis Student Lecture Series | Peggy Deamer AR'77: Work on Work

Thursday, November 13, 2025, 6:30 - 8:30pm

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Image/poster credit:  Sean Yendris

Image/poster credit:  Sean Yendris

This event will be conducted in-person in room 315F and through Zoom.

For in-person attendance, please register in advance here. 
For Zoom attendance, please register in advance here.

Peggy Deamer is Professor Emerita of Yale University’s School of Architecture and principal in the firm of Deamer, Studio.  She is a founding member of the Architecture Lobby, a group advocating for the value of architectural design and labor. She is the editor of Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present and The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design and the author of Architecture and Labor.  Her theory work explores the relationship between subjectivity, design, and labor in the current economy. She received the Architectural Record 2018 Women in Architecture Activist Award and the 2021 John Q. Hejduk Award.

The lecture will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Dila Koksal.

The Diane Lewis Student Lecture Series is endowed by Elise Jaffe + Jeffrey Brown.

This event is free and open to the public. Registration is required. 

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