In “Friendly Fire” in The Architect’s Newspaper of 29 October 2020, Timothy A. Schuler declares, “It’s time for designers to embrace fire as the ecological and cultural force that it is.”
As he explains, “Architects and urban designers can help cities think through the spatial implications of wildfires. . . . There is potential, in other words, for practitioners to begin treating fire the same way they do water — as an organizing framework. Call it pyrologic urbanism, or ‘living with fire.’”
Photo of the 2013 Rim Fire in the Stanislaus National Forest provided by the Forest Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
