News and Media: Women in Architecture
MPR News: A New Exhibition at the U Looks at the Legacy of Women Architects in Minnesota
On the opening of the exhibit "Making Room: Women's Histories from the Northwest Architectural Archives," co-curated by Cheryll Fong, Jane King Hession, and Kimberly Long Loken, MPR explored the rich history of Minnesota's early women architects.
February 2025
News and Media: Modernism
A Sumptuous Modern Buffet: Jane King Hession
A free-wheeling, unrehearsed, pandemic-era interview with George Smart for US Modernist Radio.
November 23, 2020
The Sunday Gent podcast
Host David Anger talks with Jane King Hession about Elizabeth Scheu Close, Ralph Rapson, Edward Durell Stone, and more.
June 28, 2020
Growing Up in Modernism
A conversation with the children (and a spouse) of noted modernists, including:Roy and Bob Close, sons of architects Elizabeth and Winston Close; Toby Rapson, son of architect Ralph Rapson; and Kristian and Monica Korab, respectively son and wife of architectural photographer Balthazar Korab.
June 2015
News and Media: Elizabeth Close
2024 Docomomo US Modernism in America Awards
Elizabeth Scheu Close: A Life in Modern Architecture
Book and Exhibition
Documentation Award of Excellence
September 2024
Elizabeth Scheu Close: A Life in Modern Architecture
Exhibit and lecture at the Austrian Embassy, Washington, DC.
September 29, 2021
Prefabricated Propaganda: the 'Model American Home' at the Berlin International Industrial Exhibit
Architecture and Democratization: Overlooked Witnesses to Allied Intervention in Occupied Germany after 1945, International Conference
University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany
June 2021
The 'Model American Home:' Democracy on Display in Cold War Berlin
The Didactics of the North American Model Home session
Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference
Montreal, Canada.
April 2021
2021 Minnesota Book Awards Finalists Announced
Elizabeth Scheu Close: A Life in Modern Architecture
Finalist, Minnesota Nonfiction
Friends of the St. Paul Public Library
January 2021
Botstiber Institute for Austrian American Studies blog
Elizabeth Scheu Close's ocean-spanning life and career are examined in two essays:"From Vienna and the Scheu House" and "A European Modernist in America," written for a foundation dedicated to promoting an understanding of the historic relationship between the United States and Austria.
October 2020
Austrian Embassy highlights Close book
Elizabeth Scheu Close is featured in "Austria in the USA ," on the website of the Austrian Embassy in Washington, D.C. She became the seventh architect (and first woman) to be included on the Embassy's list of Austrian-born architects who have a significant body of built work in the United States.
A Daily Dose of Architecture Books
A review of Elizabeth Scheu Close: A Life in Modern Architecture was featured on the website A Daily Dose of Architecture Books.
July 20, 2020
Elizabeth "Lisl" Scheu Close: a conversation sponsored by The Center for Austrian Studies
COVID-19 prevented this spring's talk and exhibition tour sponsored by the Center for Austrian Studies and the Goldstein Museum of Design at the University of Minnesota. In its place, student Olivia Rudek interviewed author Jane King Hession about "Lisl's" Austrian roots and early life and education in Vienna.
May 19, 2020
Elizabeth Scheu Close: A Life in Modern Architecture exhibit
HGA Gallery, Rapson Hall
Book signing and closing reception
April 20, 2020
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19
Women in Architecture: Lisl Close and the Legacy of Modern Design
Docomomo US/MN at the University of Minnesota
Lecture by Jane King Hession followed by panel discussion with Jean Rehkamp Larson, founder of Rehkamp Larson Architects, and Julia Robinson, FAIA, professor of architecture at the University of Minnesota. Panel moderator Katherine Stalker, president Docomomo US/MN.
March 4, 2020
News and Media: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
Frank Lloyd Wright in Japan: Revisited
Keynote Lecture for the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians
by Jane King Hession.
November 15, 2022
Book It: Kraus House gets new literary blessing for it and Frank Lloyd Wright
Robert Duffy for St. Louis Public Radio
December 11, 2015
Frank Lloyd Wright in New York: The Plaza Years, 1954 to 1959 Lecture at the Skyscraper Museum
Jane King Hession and Debra Pickrel
August 10, 2009
News and Media: John H. Howe
Blueprint for an Interesting Read
John H. Howe, Architect: From Taliesin Apprentice to Master of Organic Design
April 2016
28th Annual Minnesota Book Awards Finalists Announced
John H. Howe, Architect: From Taliesin Apprentice to Master of Organic Design
Finalist, General Nonfiction
The Friends of the Saint Paul Library
January 2016
Architect John Howe Mastered organic design
MPR News host Cathy Wurzer talks with Jane King Hession about John H. Howe
September 11, 2015
Three Historic Homes by Architect John Howe
By Marci Matson for Edina Magazine
September 2015
John Howe: How Frank Lloyd Wright's right-hand man flourished in Minnesota
By John Reinan for the StarTribune
September 19, 2015
News and Media: Ralph Rapson
A Blast from the Past: Northern Lights and Ralph Rapson
In 1999, Northern Lights interviewed the three authors-of Ralph Rapson: Sixty Years of Modern Design--Jane King Hession, Rip Rapson, and Bruce Wright. The two-part show, produced by Dave Carlson, includes videos of Rapson and curators Jennifer Komar Olivarez and Jane King Hession walking through, respectively, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and Weisman Art Museum exhibits that documented Rapson's life and career.
Minnesota Modern Masters: Ralph Rapson
Ralph Rapson edited interview using footage from 1999.