Life often imitates art, but it was an unfortunate turn of events when life imitated Greg Kochanowski’s field of research. Kochanowski, an Otis College Architecture/Landscapes/Interiors instructor, and Architecture Studio Director at Rios Clementi Hale Studios, had been researching fires, rain, and debris flow in relation to arid climates and architecture for about five years. At the 2018 ASLA (American Society of Landscape Architects) Conference in Philadelphia, he led a session called “Fires, Floods, and Slides: The Other Impacts of Climate Change.”