TY - GEN T1 - Elizabeth Scheu Close : a life in modern architecture A1 - Hession, Jane King, 1951- A2 - Soranno, Joan LA - English PP - Minneapolis PB - University of Minnesota Press YR - 2020 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1353100947 AB - "Elizabeth "Lisl" Scheu Close (1912-2011) was the first female modern architect in Minnesota. Over her 60-year career, she designed more than 150 residences in the state, which were stylistically rooted in Austrian and other European modern movements of the 1920s and 30s. The work of architect Adolf Loos was a primary influence -Close grew up in the 1912 Loos-designed Scheu House, a seminal early modern house in Vienna, Austria. In 1938 with her husband Winston Close, she cofounded the first practice in Minnesota dedicated to modern architecture. The book traces Lisl's life, education, and career from pre-World War I Vienna, to MIT, to Minnesota. Lisl was in the vanguard of professionally-trained women architects. Not only was she perceived as a "woman in a man's field" when she launched her career, she was also committed to a design aesthetic then not widely adopted by the public or the profession. Modernism, to Lisl, meant the design of buildings that "fit the modern style of living," or those that were practical, efficient, durable, and of their time"-- CN - NA737.C49 SN - 9781452963082 SN - 1452963088 SN - 9781517908577 SN - 1517908574 KW - Close, Elizabeth Scheu, : 1912-2011. KW - Architects : Minnesota : Biography. KW - Architects : United States : Biography. KW - Women architects : Minnesota : Biography. KW - Women architects : United States : Biography. KW - Femmes architectes : États-Unis : Biographies. KW - Femmes architectes : Minnesota : Biographies. KW - Architectes : États-Unis : Biographies. KW - Architectes : Minnesota : Biographies. KW - Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) KW - History. KW - ARCHITECTURE. KW - Women. KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY. KW - Women architects KW - Architects KW - United States KW - Minnesota KW - collective biographies. KW - Biographies KW - Biographies. ER -