History’s catalog homes providing modern blueprint in LA’s wildfire rebuilding

Real estate consultants Steven and Jason Somers came up with a vintage solution for the mammoth task of rebuilding from Los Angeles’ devastating firestorms.

Why not create a catalog of standard floor plans that displaced families can use to rebuild their homes, saving tons of time and buckets of money?

The Somers brothers latched onto the 80-year-old Case Study design program as their muse.

From 1945 to 1966, a cadre of top architects designed several dozen adaptable, affordable...