Waking Up from the California Dream in the Age of Wildfires

I asked Buckner if the vision of California that gave rise to Crestwood Hills was still valid, in the time of the new abnormal. She didn’t answer directly. She told me that she had lost a house in Malibu in 1993; she rebuilt it, only to lose it again, in the Woolsey Fire. (An experimental studio she built below the house, using metal siding ...