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News and Media: Elizabeth Close

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

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"Prefabricated Propaganda: 'Model American Home' at the Berlin International Industrial Exhibition

Architecture and Democratization: Overlooked Witnesses to Allied Intervention in Occupied Germany after 1945, International Conference

University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany

June  2021

Austrian Embassy highlights Close book

Elizabeth Scheu Close, architect was chosen as an "Austria in the USA " featured portrait by 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 architects who have  a significant body of 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," on July 20, 2020. 


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The Sunday Gent podcast

Host David Anger talks with Jane King Hession about Elizabeth Close, Ralph Rapson, and more.

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Elizabeth Scheu Close, a conversation sponsored by The Center for Austrian Studies, U of M

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.

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Elizabeth Scheu Close: A Life in Modern Architecture exhibit

HGA Gallery, Rapson Hall, now through unknown date


Book signing and closing reception

April 20, 5:30 to 7:30    BOOK SIGNING AND RECEPTION CANCELLED DUE TO COVID-19

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Women in Architecture: Lisl Close and the Legacy of Modern Design

Docomomo US/MN at the University of Minnesota

March 4, 2020, 6:00 to 7:30


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.


News and Media: John H. Howe

Architect John Howe mastered organic design

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

September 11, 2015


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2016 MN Book Award Finalist for General Nonfiction: John H. Howe, Architect

Ann Hutton for SELCOtv, March 29, 2016



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Blueprint for an Interesting Read

Minnesota Book Award Finalist,  2016

The Friends of the Saint Paul Library



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Three Historic Homes by Architect John Howe

Marci Matson for Edina Magazine, 2015



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

John Reinan for the StarTribune, September 19, 2015



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News and Media: The Kraus House

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

Robert Duffy for St. Louis Public Radio, December 11, 2015



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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. 


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