ARCHITEXT by Arrol Gellner
Tuesday, October 29, 2019

PG&E PUNISHES CUSTOMERS FOR THE FAILURE OF ITS 19TH-CENTURY GRID

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The Camp fire, Paradise, California, November 2018. A PG&E equipment failure was likely the ignition source. (Image: Josh Edels...
Tuesday, October 22, 2019

WHY ROOFS LEAK

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Wright's roofs: "They don't call it Fallingwater for nothing." (Bear Run, Pennsylvania,  completed 1939) The root pur...
Monday, October 14, 2019

ONE REASON ARCHITECTS BLOW THE BUDGET

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Ayn Rand's Howard Roark character, here portrayed by Gary Cooper in the Warner Bros. film of 1949: The poster boy for architectura...
Monday, October 7, 2019

POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE SPACE IN DESIGN: Leave The Cookies, Not The Scraps

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What's this got to do with architecture? Read on. One of the simplest yet least understood concepts in architecture is that of pos...
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Monday, September 30, 2019

WHICH PATH FOR CHINA?

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CCTV headquarters building in Beijing. Architect: Rem Koolhaas. Many landmark Chinese buildings, such as the "bird's nest...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

MISSION STYLE MANIA

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Mission style table by Gustav Stickley, c 1910. (Image copyright Metropolitan Museum of Art) When I was a kid, the height of furnitur...
Monday, June 24, 2019

WHAT'S GREEN REALLY MEAN?

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Author's Note: I'll be at my home-away-from-home in Suzhou, China for the months of July and August, and because those big bad socia...
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Arrol Gellner
Arrol Gellner is an architect with over thirty years experience in residential, commercial, and institutional architecture. He is the author of three well-regarded books on historic architecture, "Storybook Style", "Red Tile Style", and "Ready to Roll", all published by Penguin/Putnam. Gellner has also written his "Architext" syndicated column for nearly twenty years. The column has been a regular feature in newspapers such as the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco Chronicle. Gellner is an honors graduate of the College of Environmental Design, University of California at Berkeley.
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