PUBLIC TALK: Architecture, Labour, Capitalism: the architect as worker

A public lecture by Professor Peggy Deamer, Associate Dean, Yale School of Architecture.

"Architecture is not a career; it is a calling!"

This lecture will examine the problems for the architectural profession when it heeds this cry. Because we too often believe that architecture is a gift to society and concern for money and power an aberration of our metier, we not only fail to properly value our work, we also fail to communicate its proper worth to the population at large. The consequence - ironically, since we think our gifts are so precious - is a perceived irrelevance and an emasculated value-proposition.

Believing that part of the reason for this is a lack of in-depth examination of the economic nature of architectural work - indeed, our failure to believe that we even DO work - Peggy Deamer will trace various work models-creative, professional, knowledge-based, service-based or productive - that can progress our understanding of and advocacy for designers' work.

Cost: Free, but RSVP required via the website