A free-wheeling, unrehearsed, pandemic-era interview with George Smart for US Modernist Radio.
November 23, 2020
Host David Anger talks with Jane King Hession about Elizabeth Scheu Close, Ralph Rapson, Edward Durell Stone, and more.
June 28, 2020
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
Elizabeth Scheu Close: A Life in Modern Architecture
Book and Exhibition
Documentation Award of Excellence
September 2024
Exhibit and lecture at the Austrian Embassy, Washington, DC.
September 29, 2021
Architecture and Democratization: Overlooked Witnesses to Allied Intervention in Occupied Germany after 1945, International Conference
University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany
June 2021
The Didactics of the North American Model Home session
Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference
Montreal, Canada.
April 2021
Elizabeth Scheu Close: A Life in Modern Architecture
Finalist, Minnesota Nonfiction
Friends of the St. Paul Public Library
January 2021
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
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 review of Elizabeth Scheu Close: A Life in Modern Architecture was featured on the website A Daily Dose of Architecture Books.
July 20, 2020
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
HGA Gallery, Rapson Hall
Book signing and closing reception
April 20, 2020
CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19
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
Keynote Lecture for the Minnesota Chapter of the Society of Architectural Historians
by Jane King Hession.
November 15, 2022
Robert Duffy for St. Louis Public Radio
December 11, 2015
Jane King Hession and Debra Pickrel
August 10, 2009
John H. Howe, Architect: From Taliesin Apprentice to Master of Organic Design
April 2016
John H. Howe, Architect: From Taliesin Apprentice to Master of Organic Design
Finalist, General Nonfiction
The Friends of the Saint Paul Library
January 2016
MPR News host Cathy Wurzer talks with Jane King Hession about John H. Howe
September 11, 2015
By Marci Matson for Edina Magazine
September 2015
By John Reinan for the StarTribune
September 19, 2015
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.
Ralph Rapson edited interview using footage from 1999.