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LATEST BOOKS BY ALAN HESS
Oscar Niemeyer Buildings (Rizzoli International, 2009)
The career of Oscar Niemeyer, the last great twentieth-century Modernist still working (at age 101), is more varied than we realize. This book presents both the major buildings of his career and little-known gems of design that will startle and expand our concept of his contributions. The all-new photographs by Alan Weintraub show all the building in a new light, from the governmental palaces of Brasilia and the revolutionary and curvaceous suburban designs for Pampulha, to dynamic free-form apartment towers and his latest iconic museums and cultural centers. The text by Alan Hess brings a new perspective that builds a bridge between Niemeyer’s iconoclastic work of the 20th century and the needs of the 21st century.
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Frank Lloyd Wright: Buildings (Rizzoli International, 2008)
Though known for astonishing residential designs like Fallingwater, the Usonian houses, and the Prairie School homes, Wright’s guiding vision was of an entire city and civilization. Each design was a piece of that larger panorama. This book explores his public buildings in all-new photographs by Alan Weintraub that show new angles and perspectives on the famous and the lesser-known works of Wright. The text by Alan Hess explores Wright’s urban philosophy as applied to specific designs.
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