ARCHITEXT by Arrol Gellner
Tuesday, April 28, 2020

AFFORDABLE HOUSING: The Invisible Answer, Part III

›
Is this your mental image of a manufactured home? Believe it or not, prior to the late 1930s, people who lived in travel trailers full-...
1 comment:
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

AFFORDABLE HOUSING: The Invisible Answer, Part II

›
Arthur Sherman's "Covered Wagon" trailers featured solid walls instead of canvas flaps—a modest start to today's ...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020

AFFORDABLE HOUSING: The Invisible Answer Part I

›
Is this any way to house people  in the richest nation on earth? (Image: Mark Brown/Chicago Sun-Times) Rising homelessness and the ...
Tuesday, April 7, 2020

THE "CALIFORNIA" FINGER-PLAN SCHOOL: Incubator for the Baby Boom

›
Burton Elementary School, San Fernando, California (1951). With its long rows of classrooms and covered outdoor corridors, it...
Monday, March 23, 2020

CORONAVIRUS—And The Things We Fear

›
Author's Note: In this unhappy climate of coronavirus-induced fear, I thought I would reprint an old piece I wrote way back in the halcy...
Tuesday, March 10, 2020

WHY DO ARCHITECTS HAVE THOSE TRIPLE NAMES?

›
Frank Lloyd Wright: Did he start the fashion for triple-barreled architect names? (Image: Mike Siegel, The Seattle Times) At some tim...
Monday, March 2, 2020

ARCHITECT ESSAYS: How's That Again?

›
A treehouse hotel in Hana: It's one thing to have architects design them, but quite another to let them write about it. In Hana, ...
‹
›
Home
View web version

About The Author

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.
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.