107th Annual Meeting

Peggy Deamer is the founding member and the Content Coordinator of the Architecture Lobby, a group advocating for the value of architectural design and labor. She is a retired Professor of Architecture at Yale University and principal in the firm of Deamer, Architects and before that, Deamer + Phillips, Architects.  She received a BA from Oberlin in philosophy, a BArch from The Cooper Union and a Ph.D from Princeton University. 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.  She is co-editor of Building in the Future: Recasting Architectural Labor; BIM in Academia; and Re-Reading Perspecta. Articles by her have appeared in Log, Harvard Design Magazine, e-Flux, The Avery Review and numerous anthologies.

Antoine Picon is the G. Ware Travelstead Professor of the History of Architecture and Technology and Director of Research at the GSD. Trained as an engineer, architect, and historian, Picon works on the history of architectural and urban technologies from the eighteenth century to the present. He has published extensively on this subject. He is amongst others the author of French Architects and Engineers in the Age of Enlightenment(1988, English translation 1992), Claude Perrault(1613-1688) (1988), L’Invention de L’ingénieur moderne (1992), La Ville territoire des cyborgs(1998), Les Saint-Simoniens (2002), Digital Culture in Architectur(2010), Ornament: The Politics of Architecture and Subjectivity(2013), and Smart Cities: A Spatialised Intelligence(2015). He has edited many other volumes, in particular L’Art de l’Ingénieur(1997), and La Ville et la Guerre(1998).

Antoine Picon is also Chairman of the Foundation Le Corbusier, and a member of the French Academy of Architecture and the French Academy of Technology.

The American Institute of Architects and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture have named Toshiko Mori, FAIA, the 2019 winner of the AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education, the highest honor given to educators in architecture.

Toshiko Mori, FAIA is the Robert P. Hubbard Professor in the Practice of Architecture at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she was chair of the Department of Architecture from 2002 to 2008, and the principal of Toshiko Mori Architect PLLC.

Her firm’s recent work includes master plans for the Brooklyn Public Library Central Branch and the Buffalo Botanical Gardens; Thread, a cultural center and artists’ residences in Senegal; and Fass School and Teachers’ Residence in Senegal. Their design for the Brown University Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs opens this spring. Their projects have been internationally exhibited, including at the 2012, 2014 and 2018 Venice Architecture Biennales, the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial and the Louisiana Museum in Copenhagen. Architectural Digest listed her amongst their biennial AD100 in 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.

She regularly contributes to publications and has won numerous awards including the Academy Award in Architecture, from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; the AIA New York Chapter Medal of Honor; the 2016 ACSA Tau Sigma Delta National Honor Society Gold Medal; and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Her projects have won awards from Architizer, The Plan and AIA. Recently, Thread was included in TIME Magazine’s 100 Greatest Places in the World.  She recently received the 2018 Maine in America Award and the LongHouse Reserve’s LongHouse Award, and will receive the OMI Arts Leadership Award in 2019.

She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Cities and Urbanization. She will be the keynote speaker at the upcoming AN Facades+ Symposium in New York and at the Dassault Systemes Worldwide Conference for Sustainable Innovation at the 2019 Milan Design Week.