Carrie Gammell is a designer, researcher, and educator, currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design (AUD) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Her doctoral research engages the intersection of architectural history, town planning, and property law, with a particular focus on residential architecture, claims, and investments in the United States. Her dissertation investigates how, long before New Deal programs and redlining practices, houses and homes not only embodied the United States’ project of economic and social enclosure but also served as material intermediaries between commons and property, dispossession and accumulation, country and city. Meanwhile, Carrie’s multidisciplinary research at cityLAB-UCLA centers social and spatial justice not only in the classroom but in the city at large. As the Associate Director of Public Architecture, she creates and sustains opportunities for AUD faculty, students, and staff to collaborate with community partners to build an equitable and just society through community-engaged research and practice. Carrie teaches architectural history and theory courses at USC, SCI-Arc, and UCLA. She holds a Master in Design Studies (Critical Conservation) from the Harvard Graduate School of Design and a Bachelor of Architecture from Rice University.
Carrie hails from the complex, odd, beautiful, humorous, disjointed, livable, and modern city of Houston, Texas. She lives in Los Angeles, California. In her free time, she is probably walking across the city (while taking pictures of buildings), cooking something from the farmers market (while snacking on a baguette), or listening to a ‘90s romcom soundtrack (while singing off-key).