TEACHING & TRAINING
I currently teach at Tulane School of Architecture as Assistant Professor of Real Estate and Historic Preservation. For four years, I taught in the Urban Planning program of the University of New Orleans as the Jean B. Boebel Assistant Professor and Chair of Historic Preservation. Previously, I held faculty positions at Harvard University Graduate School of Design and Northeastern University School of Architecture. I trained in civil/structural engineering, architectural history, science & technology studies and urban planning at Columbia University, MIT, and Harvard.
The development, decline, revitalization and resilience of American cities and suburbs are my areas of expertise, which I teach in the form of lectures (e.g. Intro to Urban Studies, ), seminars (e.g. History of American Architecture; Planning History & Theory), studios (e.g. Urban Design 1 & II; Design & Development I), and practicums (e.g. Development & Preservation Policy in Planning Practice; Sustainable Design & Planning). Through these courses, students learn not only canonical histories of urbanism and critical theory of urbanity but also a range of qualitative techniques and spatial technologies pertinent to planning and designing justice: program evaluation, policy design, site analysis, design / plan review, trauma-informed interviewing, and interview / oral history coding.
community-engaged RESEARCH studios
The studios I coordinate encourage students to think critically about the role of designers, developers, planners and preservationists in creating resilient, just cities and contesting injustice and inequality. I connect students at ever level of education to past and present problems of practitioners and the range of practices and praxis develop to address them, so that students taught critique and creativity can follow as well as lead.
SPRING 2024 - HERITAGE RISK LAB - A JEDI Approach to Heritage Loss from National Historic Landmarks (Studio Partner: African American Heritage Trail of Martha’s Vineyard)
FALL 2021 - URBANISM & URBAN DESIGN - Mutual Aid via Multi-Family Housing: ‘Supportive Housing’ for Disaster-displaced Families (Studio Partner: Broad Community Connections)
SPRING 2021 - MANAGING MAIN STREETS: DEVELOPMENT & PRESERVATION POLICY IN PLANNING PRACTICE: Greenwood Then, Now & Beyond. (Course Partners: Greenwood Main Streets)
FALL 2020 - URBANISM & URBAN DESIGN - Tulsa Greenwood TIF District Project (Studio Partner: Greenwood Chamber of Commerce, Greenwood Main Streets)
FALL 2019 - URBANISM & URBAN DESIGN - Broad Street Corridor Study: Making Space for Entrepreneurship in Economic Development (Studio Partner: Propeller)
SPRING 2018 - MASTER PLANNING - Gentilly Resilience District Design Overlays (Studio Partner: City of New Orleans, Office of Resilience and Sustainability)
FALL 2018 - URBANISM & URBAN DESIGN - Pontchartrain Park Design Guide (Studio Partner: New Orleans Redevelopment Authority)
FALL 2019 - URBANISM & URBAN DESIGN - A Flood of Change: Broad Street since 2005 (Studio Partners: Propeller, Broad Community Connections, South Broad Street Business Alliance)
FALL 2019 - RISK & EQUITY - A multidisciplinary Seminar on the Anthropocene of Mississippi River communities, sponsored by Berlin-based HKW & Max Plank Institute; co-organized by Christopher Oliver (Tulane), Scott Knowles (Drexel) and Buhm Soon Park (KAIST)