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A Stool, a Bread Knife, and Books: How the Keepers of L.A.'s Most Famous Homes Chose What to Save During the Fires
By Diana Budds
FEBRUARY 6, 2025
QUOTE: "The house is still standing, fortunately. "We just escaped through the skin of our teeth," Keim says. However, Keim's experience has shifted how he's planning to manage the house in the future. This mostly has to do with the landscape around it. Two of the exterior passageways adjacent to the house are covered in vines, which will soon be removed. A wisteria plant over the entrance will likely have to go, too. He also plans to rething the front [garden] staircase, which is made from salvaged railroad ties that are highly flammable since they are treated with creosote..."
The Sunday Times of London
By Michael Webb
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
'So Much Has Been Lost': An Architect's Lament for Los Angeles
QUOTE: "Kevin Keim had just returned to his home in Austin, Texas, when he heard of the Palisades fire ripping through the northwestern tip of Los Angeles. As director of the Charles Moore Foundation, he responsible for the idiosyncratic house that Moore designed in 1973 for the late Leland Burns, a UCLA professor of urban planning. Without hesitation, Keim took the next flight back to LA to protect his baby..."
By Alex Ross
JANUARY 31, 2025
The Hidden Histories Lost in the Los Angeles Fires
QUOTE: "The Burns House itself is a tour de force of hidden history. A warm-hued stucco exterior gives way to an almost Victorian profusion of vaulted ceilings, twisting staircases, and wraparound bookshelves. Keim said 'It would have been heartbreaking to lose all of this. But every loss is heartbreaking—I don't want to make this house sound more important than any other. We just try to save what we can.""
By Adriane Quinlan
JANUARY 16, 2025
The Rogue Architectural Preservationist Putting Out Fires in the Palisades
QUOTE: "In Rustic Canyon, two one-way streets run parallel to each others and the creek runs between to the sea, and on either saide the hill is very steep. So I was walking there and noticed a lot of fire and smoke on the canyon wall. So I climbed up there and was starting to put those out and it took six hours...."
