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Dec 26, 2018 · Born in San Francisco and a graduate of UC Berkeley, Morgan was the first woman to graduate of UC Berkeley’s civil engineering program, the first woman ever to be admitted to the prestigious...
Mar 6, 2019 · Overlooked No More: Julia Morgan, Pioneering Female Architect Morgan, who was the first woman to earn an architect’s license in California, was a prolific designer of hundreds of...
Julia Morgan was one of California’s most influential architects. Remarkable not only as an independent woman working in what was traditionally a man’s field, she was also a meticulous engineer and a talented designer...
Julia Morgan opened her own architectural firm in 1904, quickly establishing herself as an outstanding residential architect, and securing a number of commissions in the Piedmont, Claremont and Berkeley neighborhoods.
The architect Charles Moore described it as a “grand liquid ballroom.” Movie director Stanley Kubrick used it in 1959 as a location for a scene in Spartacus, and Lady Gaga filmed a video there last year. But the mastermind behind the Neptune Pool -- the architect Julia Morgan -- preferred to remain out of the spotlight.
Oct 23, 2019 · Morgan was the first woman to study architecture at the prestigious Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the first woman to work as a professional architect in California. During her 45-year career, she designed more than 700 homes, churches, office buildings, hospitals, stores, and educational buildings.
For famed architect Julia Morgan, one barrier after another fell to the wayside. She was the only woman to graduate with a civil engineering degree from Berkeley in 1894. She was the first woman admitted to the prestigious architecture program at École des Beaux-Arts in Paris.
