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
"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.
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.
The Sunday Gent podcast
Host David Anger talks with Jane King Hession about Elizabeth Close, Ralph Rapson, and more.
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.
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
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
2016 MN Book Award Finalist for General Nonfiction: John H. Howe, Architect
Ann Hutton for SELCOtv, March 29, 2016
Blueprint for an Interesting Read
Minnesota Book Award Finalist, 2016
The Friends of the Saint Paul Library
Three Historic Homes by Architect John Howe
Marci Matson for Edina Magazine, 2015
John Howe: How Frank Lloyd Wright's right-hand man flourished in Minnesota
John Reinan for the StarTribune, September 19, 2015
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
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.