STUDIO RxP
Studio RxP is a multi-disciplinary consulting firm that serves cities, communities and cultural institutions endangered by chronic risks (e.g. flooding) and acute threats (e.g. speculative development). Founded in 2019 by Fallon Samuels Aidoo, STUDIO RxP builds on 15 years of experience in the fields of architecture, planning and engineering to bridge the gap between hazards mitigation and heritage preservation.
STUDIO RxP IN BRIEF
The work of Studio RxP brings research on threats to real estate in the past to bear on the most pressing concerns for their future. With community partners, we engage in diverse modes and media of planning—from neighborhood visioning, corridor studies, asset mapping and historic resource surveys to strategic plans, preservation plans and small area management plans. We welcome the opportunity to build capacity, generate revenue and make an impact with the stewards of sprawling settlements and singular spaces.
Studio RxP specializes in linking cultural heritage and community assets to capital and caretakers—from governmental stakeholders to grassroots stewards. Studio RxP, in other words, can be found wherever the built environment and the organizations responsible for it would benefit from prescriptions for sustainability and viability.
RxP@UNO and RxP@Tulane extends the work of STUDIO RxP to nonprofits, low-margin business owners and public sector clients in need of cutting-edge research design and design research.
about the PRINCIPAL
Fallon Samuels Aidoo, a practitioner and advocate of equitable real estate development and preservation, brings architecture, planning and engineering education and practice to bear on the history and future of valued buildings and landscapes. For leading AEC companies (DMJM Harris, HNTB Architecture) and large cities (e.g. Los Angeles, San Antonio, New Orleans), she has contributed to the preservation of historic structures and streetscapes vital to community development and resilience. For smaller organizations overseeing historic communities, corridors and cultural landscapes in the United States and former US territories, she surveys, strategizes and secures public, private and philanthropic investment in plans and policies needed to preserve and protect them—from landmark designations and preservation ordinances to historic tax credit assessments and historic resource surveys.
Fallon has also worked within academia since 2008, teaching students of architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning and design to research and redesign the built environment. at public and private institutions of New England and New Orleans, she has trained the next generation and mid-career professionals alike to make site, neighborhood, corridor, historic district and small area management plans based on the most measurable and most intangible character of historic places. Fallon meets the U.S. Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Architectural Historians engaged in Historic Preservation and Cultural Resources Management, in addition to holding degrees in urban planning (Ph.D., Harvard), architectural history (M.S., MIT), and civil/structural engineering (B.S., Columbia).