Julia Morgan: The Road to San Simeon, Visionary Architect of the California Renaissance (Hardcover)

Julia Morgan: The Road to San Simeon, Visionary Architect of the California Renaissance By Gordon Fuglie (Text by), Jeffrey Tilman (Text by), Karen McNeill (Text by), Victoria Kastner (Text by), Elizabeth Mcmillian (Text by) Cover Image

Julia Morgan: The Road to San Simeon, Visionary Architect of the California Renaissance (Hardcover)

By Gordon Fuglie (Text by), Jeffrey Tilman (Text by), Karen McNeill (Text by), Victoria Kastner (Text by), Elizabeth Mcmillian (Text by)

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Julia Morgan was a pioneering woman architect, best known for Hearst Castle, in the vanguard of Beaux-Arts design and style in the first half of the twentieth century.

Julia Morgan was truly a pioneer of her time—among other accomplishments, she was the first woman architect to be licensed in California, in 1904. Through her remarkable life and legacy, this book celebrates the Beaux-Arts architecture of California. Focusing on Morgan’s most famous project in the state, Hearst Castle, to which she devoted more than 30 years of her life, this volume also examines, for the first time, Morgan’s fabulous early buildings in the style. Morgan designed more than 700 buildings across California, many of which are designated landmarks today. Deepening the reader’s understanding of California archi-tecture, this book also places into context Morgan’s ambitions, her influences and inspirations, as well as her daily practice and challenges as a woman shaping an extraordinarily prolific and highly successful career in a man’s world.
 
 To better understand the Beaux-Arts training Morgan underwent in Paris, the reader is taken through the challenging, highly arduous Ecole des Beaux-Arts curriculum, which Morgan completed, a lone woman among men. Also explored, in detail, is the story of how the studio and kilns of California Faience, a Berkeley ceramic artisan’s shop, became the supplier of tens of thousands of tiles designed by Morgan and overseen by Hearst himself to decorate their architectural master-piece overlooking the Pacific Ocean.
Gordon Fuglie is a guest curator of exhibitions, exhibition juror, art history lecturer, writer, and project developer with a focus on the historical and contemporary legacy of California.
Product Details ISBN: 9780847869558
ISBN-10: 0847869555
Publisher: Rizzoli Electa
Publication Date: May 3rd, 2022
Pages: 304
Language: English