The Skyscraper Museum is devoted to the study of high-rise building, past, present, and future. The Museum explores tall buildings as objects of design, products of technology, sites of construction, investments in real estate, and places of work and residence. This site will look better in a browser that supports web standards, but it is accessible to any browser or Internet device.
Subscribe to The Skyscraper Museum Audio podcasts and receive new updates automatically: Subscribe directly using iTunes
Subscribe to The Skyscraper Museum Podcast Series (RSS)
Jane King Hession and Debra Pickrel, authors of
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT IN NEW YORK: The Plaza Years, 1954-1959
(Gibbs Smith 2007)
Recipient of the 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards' Gold Medal in Architecture
Index of Speakers
Introductions by Museum Director Carol Willis (00:00-04:55)
Jane King Hession, "Taliesin East" (05:00-17:30)
Debra Pickrel, Battling the "Glass Box Boys" & Courting the New Consumer (17:35-31:10)
Jane King Hession, In the Spotlight & Master of the Medium (31:20-44:25))
Debra Pickrel, The Guggenheim Rising & After Wright (44:28-53:00)
D.P. & J.K.H., Question and Answer (53:20-1:03:36)
Jane King Hession, a native of Nyack, New York, received her M.Arch. from the University of Minnesota. An architectural writer and historian with interests in Frank Lloyd Wright and mid-century modernism, she is the coauthor of Ralph Rapson: Sixty Years of Modern Design. Hession resides in Alexandria, Virginia.
Debra Pickrel is a New York journalist who has written on architecture and design for Architectural Record, House Beautiful, Metropolis, and Preservation. She is also the author of A Day in Turtle Bay, a walking tour of her Manhattan neighborhood with a foreword by Walter Cronkite. A former board member of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, Pickrel is a journalism graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and received her M.A. in Historic Preservation from Goucher College. She is a native of Richmond, Virginia.
