Alan Hess is an architect and historian. He is the San Jose Mercury News' architecture critic and has written eighteen books on Modern architecture and urbanism in the mid-twentieth century; subjects include John Lautner, Oscar Niemeyer, the Ranch House, Googie architecture, Las Vegas, and Palm Springs.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Schindler Goes Hollywood
THE OLD NARRATIVE EXPLAINING CALIFORNIA design is roughly this: European Moderns planted the seeds of an avant-garde, technology-based design community when ...
Schindler Goes Hollywood Part II
continued from Part 1, here] IF ONE DESIGNER SYMBOLIZES the reality of California diversity — and our struggle to come ...
