Dante Furioso
“Hammer and Machete: The Plantation in the Nineteenth-Century Urbanization of Havana”
Princeton University, History and Theory of Architecture, School of Architecture
2025 Carter Manny Award Research Citation

This dissertation reveals how the architecture of Havana’s nineteenth-century urbanization—including the labor, material flows, techniques of construction, and organization of new professional categories—were all deeply entwined with the developments, aspirations, and fears that grew out of Cuba’s system of racialized plantation slavery.


Carrie Gammell
“Enclosing the American Frontier: Residential Architecture, Land Claims, and Mortgage Investments (1862–1934)”
University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Architecture and Urban Design
2025 Carter Manny Award Writing Citation

This 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.

Ruslana Lichtzier
“Insurgent Rendering: Visual and Architectural Practices toward Indigenous Sovereignty in the Naqab Desert”
Northwestern University, Department of Art History
2025 Carter Manny Award Research Citation

Critically examining the crisis of visibility and existence imposed by Israel on al-Araqib—an “unrecognized” Bedouin village in the Naqab—this dissertation demonstrates how collaborations between its Palestinian residents and Jewish Israelis transform visual and spatial technologies of colonial domination into insurgent tools that assert Indigenous presence and history while materializing decolonial futurity.


M.C. Overholt
“Sex Under Construction: Architecture, Sexual Science, and Queer Environments in the Twentieth-Century American City”
University of Pennsylvania, Weitzman School of Design
2025 Carter Manny Award Writing Citation

This dissertation examines how environmental conceptions of human sexual and gendered subjectivity—emerging from behavioral science and its peripheries—shaped architectural theory and practice in the United States. 


Eliza Pertigkiozoglou
“Programmed Collaboration: Work Relationships in Software for Building Design, 1970–90”
McGill University, Peter Guo-hua Fu School of Architecture
2025 Carter Manny Award Writing Citation

Writing a history of architectural practice through and as software history, this dissertation examines how databases of building design software structured cross-professional collaboration in architecture and construction, from office automation systems in the 1970s to commercial design software in the 1980s.