Peggy Deamer is Professor Emerita of Yale University's School of Architecture and principal in the firm of Deamer, Studio. She is the founding member and the Research Coordinator 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. She received the Architectural Record 2018 Women in Architecture Activist Award.

List of Charts

Forward: Andrew Ross

Introduction

Chapter 1 Craft and Design: "Detail: The Subject of the Object"

Chapter 2 Architectural Work: "Work"

Chapter 3 Technology, BIM and New Work: "BIM and Parametricism"

Chapter 4 Architectural Production and Consumption: Architectural Work in the Capitalist

Context

Chapter 5 Architectural Work: Immaterial Labor

Chapter 6 Antitrust Laws and Architectural Value: "The Sherman Antitrust Laws and the Profession of Architecture"

Chapter 7 Architectural Unionization: "The Missing Unions of Architectural Labor"

Chapter 8 Professionalism and the AIA: "Response to AIA Values" with Keefer Dunn and Manuel Shvartzberg

Chapter 9 Other Nations' Professional Architectural Associations: "International Architectural Associations: Comparisons and Concerns"

Chapter 10 Architectural Contracts: "Contracts of Relations"

Chapter 11 Architectural Cooperativization: "Socializing Architecture Practice: From Small Firms to Cooperative Models of Organization" with Aaron Cayer, Shawhin Roudbari, and Manuel Shvartzberg

Chapter 12 Beyond Architecture: "For an Architecture of Radical Democracy" with Manuel Shvartzberg

Chapter 13 Coda

Afterword: Jane Rendell

Index