Carrie Gammell is a designer, researcher, and educator, currently working as an Assistant Professor at the Clemson University School of Architecture in Charleston, South Carolina. She teaches a first-year graduate studio on investigation, documentation, and conservation as well as a second-year graduate seminar on contemporary debates in historic preservation. Meanwhile, she researches the architectural outputs of British, Swedish, and Dutch property laws in colonies that later became part of the United States.
Carrie is a licensed architect in Colombia and has previously worked at several architecture firms in both Colombia and the United States, including Venturi Scott Brown & Associates in Philadelphia. She holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Architecture from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA); a Master in Design Studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Design; and a Bachelor of Architecture from Rice University. Carrie’s doctoral research engaged the intersection of architectural history, urban planning, and property law, with a particular focus on residential architecture, claims, and investments in the late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century United States. Her dissertation investigated how, long before New Deal programs and redlining practices, houses and homes not only embodied the federal government’s 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 transdisciplinary research at cityLAB-UCLA centered spatial justice in both the classroom and the city at large. As the Director of Public Architecture, she created and sustained opportunities for AUD faculty, students, and staff to collaborate with other departments and community partners in the building of a more equitable society. She looks forward to continuing this work at the Clemson Design Center Charleston.