This is 99% invisible. I'm Roman Mars.

For someone who has devoted a good portion of his life telling stories about architecture and design,

I haven't given a ton of airtime to the stories of individual architects.

I tend to gravitate towards the big ideas and the small stories of design

and not the achievements of great people.

However, some individuals are so remarkable and undeniable,

they demand biographical treatment.

Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul Revere Williams, Isamunuchy, and the subject of this episode,

Julia Morgan.

As a Northern Californian, I am very familiar with Julia Morgan, but many people are not and a new podcast called New Angle

Voice from the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation is here to remedy that by

telling the stories of women architects that have been egregiously omitted and overlooked, starting with

Julia Morgan.

Here to tell us her story is the host of New Engel Voice, Cynthia Krakauer.

The first woman to study architecture at the Aacolde-Bozart in the 1890s, the first licensed

architect in California, with over 700 building designs to her credit.

Julia Morgan should need no introduction, but in reality, it is only in the past few decades that her career has received the recognition and celebration it deserves.

For years, she was overlooked, even at Hearst Castle, her most famous work she was overshadowed.

With the 20-some years of dedication to building the landmark, often reduced to, oh, some woman designed this place when anyone on

tours asked about the architect. Little was known about her until a few

committed historians and architects

set out to change that, starting in the 1970s.

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