![]() Interior courtyard of Morgan’s Laniakea YWCA in Honolulu. In addition to Hearst Castle, Morgan remodeled and completed Phoebe Hearst’s Hacienda del Pozo de Verona in Pleasanton, California Livermore House in San Francisco, The Berkeley City Club, the Laniakea YMCA in Honolulu, and many others. Throughout her prolific career that spanned 45 years, Morgan designed hundreds of homes, churches, offices, hospitals, stores and educational buildings in California. Morgan designed the clock tower at Mills College in California along with several other campus buildings in the Spanish architectural style. One of her first projects was the Spanish architectural style bell tower at Mills College in Oakland, which – thanks to Morgan’s reinforced concrete design – survived the 1906 earthquake. Prior to opening her own architectural firm in 1904, she worked for the renowned architect John Galen Howard. After graduation, she returned to her native San Francisco. She became the first woman to earn a degree at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Initially turned down by the Ecole, she persisted and occupied herself by entering and winning major architectural competitions in Europe. Urged by Bernard Maybeck, one of her professors at Berkeley, Morgan decided to pursue her interest in architecture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. At Berkeley, she showed a passion for architecture which was believed to have been influenced by a relative – Pierre Le Brun who designed the MetLife Tower in New York City. Born in San Francisco in 1872, Morgan was one of the first women to graduate from the University of California at Berkeley with a civil engineering degree. ![]() Julia Morgan with William Randolph Hearst as they discuss plans for the construction of Hearst Castle.Ī Career of Firsts. Photo Credit: Vidar Nordli-Mathisen on Unsplash The ornate, indoor pool at Hearst Castle in San Simeon, California. Morgan and Hearst also embraced the Spanish Revival style that was gaining popularity at the time - based on the Spanish colonial architecture during the colonization of the Americas. Commissioned by William Randolf Hearst, the San Simeon estate reflected the architectural styles and decor that he came across in his travels around the world, particularly in Europe. However, it is by no means her only significant contribution to architecture and building. ![]() and the most famous “creation” of Julia Morgan, who also supervised its construction from 1919 to 1947. Located halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco in San Simeon, Hearst Castle stands as one of the magnificent architectural structures in the U.S. The first woman to study architecture at the prestigious Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, Julia Morgan’s crowning achievement is Hearst Castle. Redefined American Luxury with Hearst Castle but also a Passion for Arts & Crafts House Design
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