Economic Architecture: The Podcast

After fires struck the Altadena community in January 2025, a group of architects and designers put their heads together to help their neighborhood act towards reclaiming what they lost—their homes.

As the fire spread across 10,000 acres of land with thousands of residential structures destroyed and 19 individuals killed, the trauma of the Altadena and neighboring Los Angeles fires persists over nine months later.

In this week’s episode of the Economic Architecture podcast, host Stuart Yasgur sits down with Tim Vordtriede, co-founder of the Altadena Collective, to talk about the process of making a home rebuild more accessible through economies of scale and how an unexpected structural innovation emerged amidst unfathomable loss.

Learn more about the Altadena Collective: https://altadenacollective.org/
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How do we solve the problems that really matter? Join host and founder of Economic Architecture, Dr. Stuart Yasgur, in conversation with pioneers at the leading edge of innovation to understand the concrete actions we can take to address the daunting challenges that are shaping our lives.

Through in-depth conversations with innovators, community leaders, experts, and others most proximate to the issues, the Economic Architecture Podcast brings us closer to understanding how we can redesign the market and our collective capacity to solve the important problems we face.

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Learn more about this podcast: https://economicarchitectureproject.org/podcast/

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