Background
Jane Hanson Weinzapfel was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in Tuscan, Arizona.
Jane Hanson Weinzapfel was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota and raised in Tuscan, Arizona.
She holds a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Arizona.
In 1994, she was elected to the American Institute of Architects College of Fellows. Her academic career includes teaching positions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture and Planning (1974-1976) and the University of Arizona College of Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Planning (1996, 1999). Weinzapfel was a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome.
She was an apprentice in Cambridge, Massachusetts with Earl Flansburgh, Weinzapfel worked with Wallace Floyd Ellenzweig Moore, Incorporated. where notable projects included the Multiple Mirror Telescope at Mountain.
Hopkins, Arizona and the Alewife Multimodal MBTA Station, Cambridge, Master of Arts. In 1982 she and Andrea Leers established Leers Weinzapfel Associates in Boston, Massachusetts. The Ohio State University East Regional Chiller Plant, Columbus, Ohio
Paul South. Russell, Doctor of Medicine Museum of Medical History and Innovation at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Master of Arts
University of Pennsylvania Gateway Chiller Plant, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Massachusetts Institute of Technology School of Architecture, Cambridge, Master of Arts
MBTA Operations Control Center, Boston, Master of Arts
Grainger Observatory at Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire
"Women of Architecture: Extended Territories: Leers Weinzapfel Associates" National Building Museum & Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation with Andrea Leers (2014)
"Number Site in Sight: Recent Urban Projects" Royal Institute of British Architects Oman Chapter and Muscat Municipality Public Lecture, Muscat, Oman (2012)
"Design Excellence" Sponsored by Committee on Design, American Institute of Architects National Convention, Washington, District of Columbia and public forum in Columbus, Indiana (2012)
"Cityscapes" Richard North. Campen Lecture Series, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio (2007)
Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture, The European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design & Urban Studies & Metropolitan Arts Press "The City & The World", Istanbul, Turkey (2014-2015)
Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture, The European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design & Urban Studies & Metropolitan Arts Press, Athens, Greece (2012)
World Architecture Festival, Singapore (2012)
Boston Society of Architects, President (2006)
Boston Architectural College, Overseer (2011-2015) & Board of Directors, Trustee (2006-2010)
Boston by Foot, Board of Directors, Trustee (2006-2015) & Board of Directors, Chair (2008-2010).