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The Laguna Art Museum hosts a lecture on California as Muse: Modern Architecture and the Golden State Thursday August 27 2015.
This event is at 6:00pm.
Laguna Art Museum is located at 307 Cliff Drive.
This presentation is included with museum membership or museum admission.
Noted Architect and historian Alan Hess will be discussing California as Muse: Modern Architecture and the Golden State.
Architect and historian Alan Hess has written nineteen books on Modern architecture and urbanism in the mid-twentieth century.
Alan Hess subjects include John Lautner, Oscar Niemeyer, Frank Lloyd Wright, the Ranch House, Googie architecture, Las Vegas, and Palm Springs.
Alan Hess is the architecture critic of the San Jose Mercury News, a contributor to The Architects Newspaper, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and PlacesJournal.org, a Graham Foundation grant recipient, and a National Arts Journalism Program Fellow.
He’s received several awards, including the Honor Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation for qualifying the oldest remaining McDonald’s for the National Register of Historic Places.
This year he received the President’s Award from the Los Angeles Conservancy for three decades of work in preserving Modern architecture.
Alan Hess is currently working on a history of Modern Architecture in California.
For more information contact the museum at (949) 494-8971 x203
