Peggy Deamer facts for kids

Peggy Deamer (née: Margaret Deamer; born February 15, 1950) is an architect, architectural educator, and Emeritus Professor of Architecture at Yale University. 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).

Biography

Deamer received BA from Oberlin College, a B.Arch. from Cooper Union and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. 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. 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)

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

Kaiwaka House, New Zealand, 2016 (Deamer Studio)

Awards

John Q. Hejduk Award, Cooper Union, 2021

Artist Residency, "Labor," Santa Fe Art Institute, 2020

See also

In Spanish: Peggy Deamer para niños