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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

Link to A Sumptuous Modern Buffet

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

Link to the Sunday Gent

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

Link to Growing up in Modernism

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

Link to Docomomo US

Elizabeth Scheu Close: A Life in Modern Architecture

Exhibit and lecture at the Austrian Embassy, Washington, DC.

September 29, 2021

Link to Austrian Embassy

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

Link to NPR

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

Link to Botstiber Institute Blog

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. 

Link to the Austrian Embassy

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

Link to DDAB

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

Link to the Center for Austrian Studies

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

Link to Goldstein Museum

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

Link to Frank Lloyd in Japan: Revisited

Book It: Kraus House gets new literary blessing for it and Frank Lloyd Wright

Robert Duffy for St. Louis Public Radio

December 11, 2015

Link to St. Louis Public Radio

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

Link to Skyscraper Museum Lecture

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

Link to Friends of the Saint Paul Library

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

Link to Friends of the Saint Paul Library

Architect John Howe Mastered organic design

MPR News  host Cathy Wurzer talks with Jane King Hession about John H. Howe

September 11, 2015

Link to MPR

Three Historic Homes by Architect John Howe

By Marci Matson for Edina Magazine

September 2015

Link to Edina Magazine

John Howe: How Frank Lloyd Wright's right-hand man flourished in Minnesota

By John Reinan for the StarTribune

September 19, 2015

Link to StarTribune

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. 

Link to Northern Lights

Minnesota Modern Masters: Ralph Rapson

Ralph Rapson edited interview using footage from 1999. 

Link to Minnesota Modern Masters interview: Ralph Rapson

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