By Douglas Burdge, AIA, Principle of Burdge Architects For over 30 years, our team at Burdge Architects has called Malibu home. Practicing coastal architecture in Southern California means living alongside extraordinary natural beauty, but it also requires confronting a sobering geographic truth: fire is a natural, recurring element of our landscape. Having lived through and designed after devastating fire events—including the Woolsey Fire and subsequent regional burns—I’ve l