Jane Loeffler began selling custom masks during the COVID-19 pandemic, and they have been received extremely well. The revenue from the sales is donated directly to Joe Biden’s campaign for president.

“A wall is fear in three dimensions” -Jane Loeffler, architectural historian, quoted in “Walls are the foundation of civilization. But do they work?” (The Washington Post)

“A wall is so primitive,” said Jane Loeffler, an architectural historian who has studied the fortification of U.S. embassies after the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon. “You can dig under it, go over it, catapult yourself over it. A wall is more symbolic than a real defense. A wall is fear in three dimensions.”

Columbia University’s Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library announced the creation of The Jane C. Loeffler Collection of Research Papers on American Embassies, a collection donated to the library by gift in 2014 by Washington, D.C. historian/author Jane C. Loeffler.

The Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library is now home to one of the largest collections of diplomatic architectural history, courtesy of donor Jane Loeffler, a pioneer in the field.