Extreme architecture: Can architects future-proof us against fire and flood?
Channel: statelibraryqld
Date: 30/05/2011

Filmed as part of the 2011 Ideas Festival, Brisbane. In the face of Australia's disaster-prone environment, architects Ian Weir and James Davidson are reconceptualising how our residential buildings might become more resilient to fire, flood and cyclone. With their first-hand experience of natural disasters, James, director of Emergency Architects Australia (EAA), and Ian, one of Australia's few 'bushfire architects', discuss the ways we can design with disaster in mind.