Jane Canter Loeffler, MCP, PhD, is an artist, architectural historian and author of:

The Architecture of Diplomacy: Building America’s Embassies (1998), revised and updated in a second edition (2011). [See Embassy Book]

Dr. Loeffler is a graduate of Wellesley College (1968) and holds a Master’s in City and Regional Planning from the Harvard Graduate School of Design (1971). She earned a PhD in American Civilization from The George Washington University (1996). She lives in Washington, D.C., near Embassy Row. Until 2011, she was visiting associate professor and lecturer in the Honors College at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD. She has lectured widely, including on behalf of the U.S. State Department, at the National Building Museum, and at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, and she has testified before Congress. She continues to write on history, architecture and public policy. [See ALL ABOUT] In addition, she makes her own art. Her paintings and drawings are featured here. [See ART]