JANE C. LOEFFLER, MCP, PhD, is an historian (History), author (Embassy Book), and artist (Art). As an architectural historian, she is the author of The Architecture of Diplomacy: Building America’s Embassies (1998), revised and updated in a second edition (2011). Her distinguished career— teaching, writing, and speaking on art, architecture, landscape, and most significantly, the history and design of embassies—is documented on this site. As an artist, she paints landscapes, seascapes, gardens, flowers, interiors and exteriors that capture the beauty of nature and the special joy of the spaces we inhabit. Her paintings and drawings are also displayed on this site.