“Julia Morgan is unquestionably among the greatest American architects of all time and a true California gem,” she said. Dianne Feinstein cited this Berkeley grad for her exceptional work. In a letter recommending Morgan for the 2014 Gold Medal, the highest honor from the American Institute of Architects, Sen. John’s Presbyterian Church), Asilomar Conference Center and numerous campus buildings at UC Berkeley and Mills College. Julia Morgan was born on January 20, 1872, in San Francisco. She preferred to use indigenous materials and carefully designed for often topographically difficult sites. Look around the state - you’ll see Morgan’s designs in more than 700 projects in a wide range of historic styles, including Hearst Castle, the Berkeley Playhouse (formerly St. She was the first woman admitted to study architecture at the cole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the first licensed to. Julia Morgan (1872-1957), Californias first licensed female architect, designed both institutional buildings and private homes in the San Francisco area. All the correspondence is transcribed and can be keyword searched. The digitizing project took over 3 years and includes almost 6,000 pages of typed and handwritten letters. And she was the first licensed female architect in California, working for John Galen Howard before launching her own firm in 1904. The correspondence between Julia Morgan and her client William Randolph Hearst is now digitized and available online. She was the first woman admitted to the prestigious architecture program at École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She was the only woman to graduate with a civil engineering degree from Berkeley in 1894.

(Courtesy Special Collections and Archives, California Polytechnic State University)įor famed architect Julia Morgan, one barrier after another fell to the wayside. She went on to design hundreds of buildings over the course of her distinguished career. Julia Morgan (January 20,1872 February 2,1957) Julia Morgan was an American architect, the first woman to be admitted to the architecture program at l’cole nationale suprieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, a graduate of University of California, Berkeley and the first woman architect licensed in California. (Courtesy Special Collections and Archives. She went on to design hundreds of buildings over the course of her distinguished career. Julia Morgan, who studied architecture in Paris after her 1894 graduation from Berkeley, returned to work on several campus landmarks, including the Hearst Memorial Mining Building and the Greek Theatre. This collection contains architectural drawings and plans, office records, photographs, correspondence, project files, student work. Julia Morgan, who studied architecture in Paris after her 1894 graduation from Berkeley, returned to work on several campus landmarks, including the Hearst Memorial Mining Building and the Greek Theatre.

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