This panel, consisting of women at various stages of their careers, will reflect on their various experiences in the field and how these have shaped their efforts to change both architectural education and the profession to be more relevant and equitable. Register now, more info to come!
Moderated by Peggy Deamer, Professor Emerita, Yale School of Architecture
Peggy Deamer is Professor Emerita of Yale University’s School of Architecture and principal of Deamer, Studio. She is the founding member of the Architecture Lobby, a group advocating for the value of architectural 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.
Website http://peggydeamer.com/
Palmyra Stefania Geraki, Yale M Arch 2010, Yale BA 2006
Palmyra Stefania Geraki '06 YSOA '10, principal at Palmyra PLLC; adjunct assistant professor at the University of Illinois Chicago. Palmyra believes that architecture is a socially engaged practice that requires empathy, conviction, and an insatiable appetite for knowledge. Palmyra has been a member of The Architecture Lobby (TAL) since 2016. She is active within TAL's Cooperative Network group, which advocates for alternative practice frameworks within the AEC industry, and she is also a member of the organizing committee of the Architecture Beyond Capitalism summer school.
Website: https://palmyrageraki.com @spgeraki @palmyraarchitecture
Elisa Iturbe, Yale M Arch 2014
Elisa Iturbe is Assistant Professor at The Cooper Union and a critic at the Yale School of Architecture (YSoA). At Yale, she also coordinates the dual-degree program between YSoA and the Yale School of the Environment. Her courses include design studios, formal analysis, and seminars that explore the spatial expression of our dominant energy paradigm. Her writings have been published in Log, AA Files, Perspecta, New York Review of Architecture and Dearq. She guest edited Log 47, titled Overcoming Carbon Form, and co-wrote a book with Peter Eisenman titled Lateness. Iturbe is co-founder of the firm Outside Development, a design and research practice.
Elaina Berkowitz, Yale M Arch 2017
Elaina is an architectural designer based in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is the Finance Coordinator of The Architecture Lobby, and a co-founder of the New Orleans chapter. She studied architecture at the University of Florida and Yale University, where her work explored topics ranging from housing, culture and the built environment, drawing and representation, and formal and typological research. She has worked in offices in New York City, Paris, and Connecticut. She works at Trahan Architects.
Website: https://www.elainaberkowitz.com/
Xinyi Xie, Yale M Arch 2024
Xinyi Xie is a first-year M-Arch I candidate at the YSOA ('24). She holds an MA Research Architecture from Goldsmiths, University of London, where she examined questions of embodiment in space and architecture through the work of feminist theorists and practitioners. She shares an interdisciplinary practice, AXX, with Adare Brown (YSOA '22), and has been a member of The Architectural Lobby since 2020.