175 - Finding Julia Morgan

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🗓️ 19 October 2021

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Julia Morgan, the first woman architect to be licensed in California, designed over 700 buildings in California including Hearst Castle in San Simeon. Despite her prolific career her architectural genius was overlooked by history for almost 100 years before she posthumously earned the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal.

Morgan was the first woman to be admitted to the architecture program at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. She designed many buildings serving women and girls, including a number of YWCAs, Women’s Clubs and buildings for Mills College. She pioneered the use of reinforced concrete in many of her buildings, a material that proved to have superior seismic performance in the 1906 and 1989 earthquakes.

Julia Morgan’s almost forgotten story has been lovingly researched and passed down over the years by a remarkable linage of “Keepers” and is chronicled in “Finding Julia Morgan,” the pilot episode of New Angle: Voice, a podcast about the lives and careers of pioneering Women in Architecture. Produced by Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, directed by Cynthia Phifer Kracauer, AIA, and radio producer Brandi Howell.

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0:00.0	Today, on the Kitchen Sisters' present, we're excited to share the premier story from
0:05.9	New Angle Voice, a brand-new podcast about pioneering women in American architecture produced
0:12.2	by Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation and our very own Kitchen Sisters Producer, Brandy
0:17.6	Hell.
0:18.6	Now, all of that would have been enough for us to feature this extraordinary series, but
0:22.4	we are particularly thrilled that their pilot story is about Julian Morgan, an architect
0:28.1	who has long loomed large for us in the Bay Area, and whose little known, almost forgotten,
0:34.7	almost lost story has been lovingly researched and passed down by a remarkable lineage of
0:41.4	keepers, beginning in the 1970s.
0:44.4	With a dear friend of ours who lived in Santa Cruz, Sarah Holmes-Putel.
0:48.4	Around here on KNBR-68, now I really want to talk with Sarah-Putel.
0:54.1	I mean, I want to talk with her so bad that if we can't make a connection here, I'm
0:57.5	just going to send a limo for you.
0:59.2	Hello, Sarah.
1:00.2	I'm right here.
1:01.2	Oh, good.
1:02.2	I'm so glad.
1:03.2	Sarah, Putel, has written a book as we just mentioned if you just turn on the radio.
1:07.0	Julian Morgan, architect.
1:09.3	How did your fascination with Julian Morgan began, Sarah?
1:12.0	It began as it does with many people.
1:14.6	When I went to the first castle, I had no idea that it was so beautiful and then I discovered
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