Walking Tour of Irvine, led by architect Alan Hess: part of "How to Live in Irvine: Model Cities and Master Plans" (funded by an Engaging Humanities Grant from UCHRI)
Department: Humanities Center
Date and Time: October 25, 2014 | 10:00 AM-11:30 AMEvent Location: University Town Center
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| | Please join us for a walking tour of Irvine, led by architect Alan Hess.How to Live in Irvine: Model Cities and Master Plans (funded by an Engaging Humanities Grant from UCHRI)
October 25, 2014
10 am - 11:30 am
Meet at University Park Community Center at 10 am
Walking Tour of University Park
Our Guide: Alan Hess
If you have special needs, please let us know.
RSVP and for more information, please contact liu@uci.edu or levanderson@gmail.com
Architect and historian Alan Hess is the architecture critic of the San Jose Mercury News and a contributor to theArchitect’s Newspaper. He has written nineteen books on Modern architecture and urbanism in the mid-twentieth century. His latest book is Frank Lloyd Wright: Natural Design, Organic Architecture.
He has written monographs on architects Oscar Niemeyer, Frank Lloyd Wright, and John Lautner, as well as architectural histories of Las Vegas and Palm Springs. Hess’ other books include Googie: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture,
Forgotten Modern, and The Ranch House. He is currently researching the architecture of Irvine, California, one of the United States’ largest master-planned communities of the 1960s and 1970s.
Hess was a National Arts Journalism Program Fellow at Columbia University's School of Journalism, and received a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts to research the work of Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx. He has a M.Arch degree from the Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, UCLA.
His work has received the 2014 Award of Excellence from Docomomo-US for “Curating the City: Modern Architecture in L.A.” Website (with the Los Angeles Conservancy), the 1997 Honor Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the President’s Award from the California Preservation Foundation.
Hess has been active in the preservation of post-World War II architecture, qualifying several Modern buildings for the National Register of Historic Places, including the oldest McDonald’s drive-in restaurant (Stanley Clark Meston, architect, 1953, Downey, CA), Stuart Pharmaceutical factory (Edward Durell Stone, architect, 1958, Pasadena, CA), Bullock’s Pasadena (Wurdeman and Becket, architect, 1947, Pasadena, CA), and Valley Ho Motor (Edward Varney, architect, 1957, Scottsdale, AZ.)