Architectural designer Marianne Cusato is well-known for her work on the Katrina Cottages, for which she’s won numerous awards, including the Smithsonian Institute’s Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum’s “People’s Design Award” and the American Society of Interior Designers “2007 ASID Design for Humanity Award” and the American Institute of Building Designers (AIBD) Florida Society “2007 Honor Award of Excellence.” She is also the author of two books:使您的房屋正确,建筑要素要使用并避免,与本·佩特雷斯(Ben Pentreath),理查德·萨蒙斯(Richard Sammons)和莱昂·克里尔(Leon Krier)一起,威尔士亲王(HRH设计的价值(2008年2月,詹姆斯·哈迪(James Hardie))。