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【Lecture 29.10.2024】 Capitalist Architectural Work in Context
Release time：2024-10-28
Capitalist Architectural Work in Context
Brief Introduction
This series of four lectures examines the manner in which the profession of architecture is set up in capitalist countries. With particular emphasis on the United States, it will nevertheless explain why differences in the structure of the architecture profession in Western countries can be linked to their varying but always capitalist national political economies. In examining the contexts in which the profession is produced in western nation-states, it will look at the role that both ideology and institutions play in constructing both a definition of “architecture” and an expectation of architectural work. Because the speaker is critical of many aspects of a capitalist-defined “architecture” – its emphasis on aesthetics limits its relevance in a world of many crises - she will also describe her activism to redirect architecture’s ideology and institutions, especially in the US and especially in architecture education.
Lecturer
Peggy Deamer
Professor Emerita of Yale University’s School of Architecture
Peggy Deamer is Professor Emerita of Yale University’s School of Architecture. She has also taught at The Cooper Union, Parsons, Princeton University, Barnard College, The School of Architecture and Planning at Auckland University. She has lectured widely on issues related to labor, design, and subjectivity and organized events and publications that emphasize the misunderstood worth of architectural workers. She is the principal in the firm of Deamer, Studio and her design work has appeared in HOME, Home and Garden, Progressive Architecture, and the New York Times amongst other journals. 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 (Routledge, 2014) and The Architect as Worker: Immaterial Labor, the Creative Class, and the Politics of Design (Bloomsbury, 2016); the author of Architecture and Labor (Routledge, 2020); and the co-author with six other women of The Organizers’ Guide to Architecture Education (Routledge, 2024). She received the Architectural Record 2018 Women in Architecture Activist Award and the 2021 John Q. Hejduk Award.
Lecture 1 | Architectural Professionalism in the US
Time：Oct. 29 (Tuesday) 19:00-20:30
Meeting Room: C1
Lecture 2 | Institutions of architectural professionalism in US
Time：Nov. 05 (Tuesday) 19:00-20:30
Classroom: B314
Lecture 3 | Institutions of architectural professionalism in Europe
Time：Nov. 12 (Tuesday) 19:00-20:30
Meeting Room: B3(E+W)
Lecture 4 | Rethinking education and fighting the professional status quo
Time：Nov. 19 (Tuesday) 19:00-20:30
Meeting Room: C1
