Items Tagged with 'natural disasters'

A trio of Los Angeles Unified School District–led projects designed by DLR Group, NAC, and Practice take the opportunity to build back better following last year’s devastating wildfires.

Although made in the spirit of expediting recovery, exemptions from environmental mandates seem like a step back from California's otherwise progressive climate-action policies.

Many Passive House proponents see the energy performance–based program and its strategies as having great potential for the rebuilding of L.A.’s devastated neighborhoods.

RECORD deputy editor Joann Gonchar talks with the landscape architecture firm’s director of climate strategy, who served as one of the principal investigators for its ‘Playbook for the Pyrocene.’

Case Study: Adapt and Case Study 2.0 offer a fire resilience–oriented riff on the famed midcentury program instigated to address the post-World War II housing shortage.

‘From these embers, we can help communities remain or, through silence and complicity, facilitate their erasure,’ writes Victor Jones.

RECORD explores the challenges to rebuilding—and the progress made—in the neighborhoods devastated by last January’s fires.

While FEMA and the Army Corps achieve early delivery of LA wildfire cleanup, challenges loom over reconstruction.

The design community in Southern California—and beyond—rallies to support displaced colleagues, friends, and neighbors during the extreme fire event.

Whipped by brutal winds, the historic wildfire event unfolding across Southern California has claimed thousands of homes, businesses, and local landmarks.