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Tim Vordtriede, co-founder of Altadena Collective, was recently featured on the Economic Architecture Podcast, where he discussed how the organization formed and evolved in response to the 2025 Altadena fires. The conversation focuses less on the event itself and more on what came after—specifically, how a group of architects and designers quickly organized to support homeowners facing the complex and often overwhelming process of rebuilding. Rather than working project by pr