Essays

‘Panarchistic Architecture: A Paradigm for Wildfire Resilience’ in the Routledge Companion to Smart Design Thinking in Architecture & Urbanism for a Sustainable Living Planet, in print in 2024.

'Design for Wildfire: Architecture as Catalyst for Virtuous not Vicious Wildfire Activity' published in the Routledge Companion to Ecological Design Thinking on August 30th 2022.

An open access essay ‘Lenses on living with wildfire: exploring the polarities of an elemental problem’, published in Medium magazine on March 5th 2022.

An open access essay, ‘Architectural Pyroscapes’ explores the potentialities of working with wildfire to catalyse architectural resilience at the urban and peri-urban scale.

An open access essay, ‘Sacrificial Architectures’ discusses wildfire as curator of material cyclicality and regeneration in architecture and urban design.

An open access essay, ‘Ecosystem of Architecture’ discusses the importance of heterogeneity in design for architectural and urban resilience to wildfire.

Xerophytic Architecture™ introduces a sub-class of Extremophytic Architecture™ inspired by desert plants and ecologies for living with extreme heat and aridity.

Pyrophytic Architecture™ discusses Panarchistic Architecture as a form of Extremophytic Architecture™ for living with extreme wildfires at the wildland-urban-interface.

Extremophytic Architecture™ introduces a new class of architectures informed and inspired by extremophyte plants for living with natural hazards.