SUMMARY

This interview of Peggy Deamer covers labor practices during the advancement of architecture through technological tools. Growing up in San Francisco in an upper middle class family, Deamer was exposed to culture from a young age. Originally interested in philosophy, she pursued this interest at Oberlin College, though she would pivot her interests later to architecture. She gained an internship at the IAUS, where she worked with Peter Eisenman, Diana Agrest, and Mario Gandelsonas. Later, Deamer pursued further education at The Cooper Union, where she studied under figures like John Hejduk, Raimund Abraham, Richard Scofidio, and Robert Slutzky. Urbanism and architectural theory were prominent topics studied during her time there. After briefly working at a practice, she switched to teaching at the University of Kentucky and later pursued a Ph.D. from Princeton University to strengthen her studio teaching and link interests in philosophy and design. More recently, Deamer has explored the topic of labor in relation to architecture through the Architecture Lobby, which originated through a critique of labor practices in the Gulf. Deamer had also attended and presented at the first Who Builds Your Architecture (WBYA) conference in which a collection of architects addressed the labor conditions in Abu Dhabi.