DEVELOPING: Los Angeles fires threaten iconic architecture and homes

2025-01-08T16:00:00-05:00

The dangerous fire situation unfolding on the ground across Los Angeles has captured the attention of Archinect as we try to keep on top of potential damage to homes, businesses, and historic structures in the Pacific Palisades, Altadena, and Pasadena, which is also our home.

What appears on track to be the greatest single natural disaster in terms of residential structures burned (at this hour the minimum number is being reported at around 1,000 by the LA Times) is, of course, going to affect much of the historic architecture that has granted the city its cultural identity in ways that are almost impossible to recount or recover.

In the Palisades Fire’s crosshair are many Richard Neutra designs, including his Case Study House #20 and Hees House from 1950. Several important Cliff May designs, the Eames House, and the beloved Getty Villa exist there as well. In Altadena/Pasadena, many quintessential Greene & Greene buildings—including the Gamble House—and the Huntington Library are ...

Let Malibu Burn: A political history of the Fire Coast- Mike Davis

2007-10-21T17:06:00-04:00

In the heat of ongoing Malibu fires, Mike Davis' now classic essay originally published in LA Weekly, once more comes to mind. radicalurbantheory / update
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DEVELOPING: Los Angeles fires threaten iconic architecture and homes

Let Malibu Burn: A political history of the Fire Coast- Mike Davis