Rolling blackouts in California and utility outages in flood-ravaged regions have focused renewed attention on resilient architecture, designing homes that bounce back from major storms and operate independently. Could you still live in your house if the power went out and gas wasn’t available? It’s an increasingly vital issue to contemplate, one addressed in my […]
Designing for Disaster: Available Today
My new book, Designing for Disaster, is available for sale on Amazon.com and at your favorite local bookstore. Publication of the book marks the end of a three-year journey into the fledgling practice of resilient architecture. If you are building a new home today, you’ve got a 50 percent chance that it will be the […]
Designing for Disaster Available for Sale
My new book provides detailed guidance for designing and building a home that can withstand and bounce back from natural disasters