Adam Thibodeaux

Education

• Master of Architecture, Post-Professional (M.Arch II) – Yale University
• Bachelor of Architecture (B.Arch) – University of Texas at Austin

Biography

Adam Thibodeaux's teaching and research are centered on the uncovering, preservation, and reclamation of architecture that once sheltered populations marginalized by difference. His work advocates for expanded heritage value assignments in existing practices of preservation and adaptive reuse which de-center permanence, material coherence, and original architectural authorship. This approach centers the valuation of architectural appropriations enacted by marginalized bodies, suggesting that methods of reclaiming buildings should be learned from the populations they once protected.

His work on this subject has ranged from full-scale adaptive reuse practice as an NCARB Registered Architect to grant-funded public installations, coordination of academic symposia, grassroots activism, and peer-reviewed publication, including the single-author monograph Deviant Space: Abjection, Failure and Appropriation as Architectural Practice (Routledge, 2025). His writing and research have additionally been published by the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC), the Association of the Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA), and the European Association of Architectural Education (EAEE), alongside other peer-reviewed publications and conferences, including the PastForward National Preservation Conference of the National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP). He also received a New Faculty Teaching Award at the 2025 Architectural Education Awards, one of three annual awards to Full-Time Faculty within the ACSA.

Adam holds a Post-Professional Master of Architecture from Yale University, where he received the Moulton Andrus Award for excellence in art and architecture, as well as a Bachelor of Architecture from The University of Texas at Austin. He was previously a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture at the University at Buffalo from 2020-2024, where he was the inaugural Despina Stratigakos Fellow for Gender and Sexuality in Architecture. He has also served as an Instructional Teaching Fellow at the Yale School of Architecture, a Public Interest Design Fellow at the University of Texas Center for Sustainable Development, and as a Research Associate at the University at Buffalo Center for Inclusive Design and Environmental Access (IDEA).

Recent & Selected Works