Since September 2019, catastrophic wildfires have scorched tens of millions of acres across Australia. As of press time, at least 28 people have died, as well as hundreds of millions of animals, and more than 3,000 houses have been destroyed. The combination of unprecedented heat and drought have made this bushfire season one of the most devastating to date; the country experienced its hottest day on record in mid-December, following the driest recorded spring.
RECORD spoke with Ian Weir, Ph.D.—an architect and researcher at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, who studies (and structured his practice around) wildfire-adapted architecture—about risks and design strategies.
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