11 Facts About Marianne Cusato

Marianne Cusato is a designer, educator, author, and urban designer based in Miami, Florida.

Marianne Cusato was the designer of the 300-square-foot "Katrina Cottage, " conceived in 2005 as an alternative to the FEMA emergency trailers supplied to some of the newly homeless survivors of Hurricane Katrina along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

In 2006, Cusato entered into a licensing agreement with the Lowe's Home Centers to make the cottages available in kit form in all Lowe's stores nationwide or the plans alone online.

Marianne Cusato is a representative of New Urbanism and New Classical Architecture.

Marianne Cusato was born in 1974 and raised in Anchorage, Alaska and in Kenai, Alaska.

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Marianne Cusato holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Notre Dame and has said of Notre Dame, “What I learned from Notre Dame was 'how to learn.

Marianne Cusato moved to New York in 1999, taking a job with the firm Fairfax and Sammons, designers of expensive houses with classical detailing.

Marianne Cusato designed a vernacular, traditional-looking, 300-square-foot hurricane-proof house which became known as “the little yellow house” and which won numerous awards and issold in kit form nationwide at Lowe's The design earned her numerous industry and humanitarian awards, among them a People's Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.

Marianne Cusato is a member of The Institute of Classical Architecture and Art and is a consultant for developers, builders, and architects designing and building traditional buildings.

Marianne Cusato is a proponent of building design that reflects and values classical design in addition to the architectural history of its prospective inhabitants.

Marianne Cusato is an outspoken architecture critic and theorist and has authored or co-authored two books on architecture and design.