Arrol Gellner

Contributor

Arrol Gellner is a practicing architect with 30 years' experience in residential and commercial architecture. He is a graduate of the College of Environmental Design at the University of California at Berkeley. Gellner's column, Architext, appears in newspapers nationwide, include the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle. Gellner is the author of several books on historic architecture. He is also a frequent speaker on design subjects, and has served on panels with some of California's most distinguished architects. Gellner works in a renovated turn-of-the-century fire hose factory near San Francisco. He also maintains an office and a home in Suzhou, China, where he spends his summers. His other interests include classic cars and music recording.

Yesterday's home fads for dirt cheap

Look no further than your local salvage yard

Feb 26

Beware the 'upgraded' home

Aside from fashion mistakes, risk lies in resale

Feb 12

Electric cars: the emissions dilemma

Part 2: The next auto revolution

Jan 29

Car tech for a better planet

Part 1: The next auto revolution

Jan 15

Old architects learn new tricks

Part 2: Octogenarian architecture

Jan 4

Saving the best designs for last

Part 1: Octogenarian architecture

Dec 18

Regulations stall construction tech

Part 3: Living by the building code

Dec 4

Window mandates put safety first

Part 2: Living by the building code

Nov 20

Building regs: help or hindrance?

Part 1: Living by the building code

Nov 6

Go green ... or else

The problem with U.S.'s light bulb mandate

Oct 23

Paying for an architect's brain

Bridging disconnect between urgency and results

Oct 9

Building materials stand test of time

Don't underestimate value of 'patina'

Sep 25

How right was Wright?

Architect had wealthy clientele, designs for 'ordinary' folk

Sep 11

Lofty ideal lost on developers

Social benefits of lofts ignored in quest for profits

Aug 28

So you wanna be an architect?

Aspiring designers learn the not-so-glamorous side

Aug 14

A visit to Fadsville

Why do homebuyers covet 'impractical' features?

Jul 31

High-tech turns parking into profits

Billed as 'convenient,' new meters take cities by storm

Jul 17

Steel gives masonry a run for the money

Inventions that changed architecture

Jul 6

Architects do more with less

A look at R. Buckminster Fuller's efficient designs

Jun 19

New Urbanism: more fluff than function?

Some projects show 'troubling tendencies'

Jun 5

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