TALLAHASSEE, Fla., July 14 -- Florida State University issued the following news release:
In Florida and across the Caribbean, hurricane season is more than a forecast. It is a reminder that safety, housing and survival are shaped by decisions people make long before a storm arrives.
For Paul Niell, an associate professor in Florida State University's Department of Art History, those decisions are also questions of history, ecology and cultural knowledge. His research on Indigenous Caribbean architecture points to a timely idea for communities facing stronger storms: Buildings can be designed to work with the environment around them, not apart from it.
"You have to build in such a way that it works with that ecological condition," Niell ...