Daniel Gregory

Daniel P. Gregory is an architectural historian and editor, with a B. A. in English and Art History from Yale, and a Ph. D. in Architecture from the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a Lecturer in Architectural History at Carnegie-Mellon University, Senior Home Editor at Sunset Magazine running the AIA-Sunset Western Home Awards Program, Editor-in-Chief of Houseplans.com, and Consumer Media Editor at Hanley Wood. A longtime supporter of the Environmental Design Archives at UC Berkeley, Dan also serves on the biennial Berkeley Design Awards jury.

Dan has written numerous design essays, most recently on Northern California architecture as editor of Classicist 21, published by the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, (ICAA, 2024). Dan’s books include Cliff May and the Modern Ranch House (Rizzoli, 2008), From the Land: The Architecture of Backen Gillam & Kroeger (Rizzoli, 2012), and The New Farm: Contemporary Rural Architecture (Princeton Architectural Press, 2020). Dan lives in San Francisco — where Marco Polo, a wire-haired pointing griffon, leads him on daily hikes in the Presidio — and Sonoma, where Dan and his wife Mary built a house in 2018.