Assistant Professor of Real Estate and Historic Preservation
Tulane Mellon Faculty Fellow in Community-Engaged Scholarship
TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE
faidoo@tulane.edu
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Founding Principal, STUDIO RxP
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U.S. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, Expert Advisory Committee, 2022-
National Register Review Committee, Louisiana, 2021-
Climate Initiatives Task Force, Louisiana Governor’s Office, 2020-2022
Preservation Planner, Practitioner, Scholar & Educator
Within academia, as a public official and through consulting, I analyze hazards to heritage and adapt heritage to hazards. This work revolves around the rehabilitation, revitalization, and recovery of real estate disproportionately impacted chronically and acutely by deterioration, disinvestment and disasters—especially historic sites, structures and streetscapes significant to Black, Indigenous and immigrant populations on the Atlantic, Pacific & Gulf coasts. With these marginalized and minoritized populations, I conduct community-based, participatory and applied research on public financing models, private investment practices and philanthropic aid programs that preserve their built environments, culture, and economies.
I conduct preservation planning and create preservation histories through two channels: as Principal of studio RxP, a consulting firm, and as Assistant Professor of Real Estate and Historic Preservation at Tulane School of Architecture. Through studio RxP, I support governments, companies, families, and communities striving to preserve and protect what they hold dear. At Tulane, I teach interdisciplinary studios and seminars reflective of my multidisciplinary expertise and experience. I recently served as Jean B. Boebel Assistant Professor of Historic Preservation in the University of New Orleans (UNO)’s Dept. of Planning and Urban Studies and Urban Entrepreneurship and Policy Institute. I previously taught architecture and urbanism at Northeastern University, Harvard, and MIT while researching hazards to historic structures for VREF, AECOM, DMJM, and Ochsendorf Block.
I hold degrees in urban planning (Ph.D., Harvard), architectural history (M.S., MIT), and civil/structural engineering (B.S., Columbia), plus a GIS Certificate (Harvard). I also meet the U.S. Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Architectural Historians engaged in Historic Preservation and requirements for AICP certification from the American Planning Association.