Alan Hess

Alan Hess has built a writing career exploring architecture.

Hess is an architecture critic for the San Jose Mercury News and has written numerous books on the topic. He also writes bimonthly columns on architecture for Silicon Valley Life.

Hess is also a speaker and practicing architect. He frequently gives speeches on preservation of historical places. He's served as a design consultant for the Petersen Automotive Museum of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. He was the architect who qualified the nation's oldest McDonald's drive-in and an early suburban department store for the National Register of Historic Places.

In 1997, he received an honor award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation and in 1999, a President's Award from the California Preservation Foundation.

He splits his time between Northern California and Michigan.

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