Aidoo, Fallon

Dr. Fallon Samuels Aidoo is a preservation planner interested in both the history and future of real estate that sustains cultures, economies, ecologies, and memories. Her research and teaching of design and development builds knowledge of real estate reinvestment, restoration, rehabilitation, and retrofit by governmental, private, philanthropic, and nonprofit organizations—and the lack thereof in places predominantly occupied by Black, Indigenous, and immigrant populations. These analyses of preservation policy and practice appear in the Journal of Environmental Studies & Science, Preservation & Social Inclusion, Spatializing Politics: Essays on Power & Place, and several forthcoming edited volumes: Discussions of Architectural Theory, the Routledge Handbook on Cultural Heritage and Disaster Risk Management, Future Anterior: An International Journal of Historic Preservation History, Theory and Criticism. Her investigations also yield heritage nominations, Historic Context Statements, and NHPA Section 106 Reviews, most recently for FEMA. Both as a professor and as founding principal of studioRxP, Dr. Aidoo advances equity and justice in preservation through service to governments, nonprofits, professional associations, peer universities and community stewards--from Louisiana's Climate Initiatives Task Force to the African American Heritage Trail of Martha's Vineyard. At Tulane School of Architecture, Dr. Aidoo teaches design and research studios in real estate development and historic preservation. She recently held an endowed professorship in Historic Preservation as Assistant Professor of Planning & Urban Studies at the University of New Orleans. She previously taught architecture and urbanism at Northeastern University, Harvard, and MIT while researching hazards to historic structures for VREF, AECOM, DMJM. Dr. Aidoo holds a PhD in urban planning (Harvard), M.S. in architectural history (MIT) and B.S. in civil/structural engineering (Columbia University).