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From KQED.

From KQED in San Francisco, I'm Alexis Madrigal.

Those of us in the Bay Area have almost certainly seen a building designed by Julia Morgan,

one of our area's most prolific and best architects.

She was a groundbreaking woman in a field that to this very day remains dominated by men. From her first commission, the Campaniel Bell Tower at Mills College, to the arts and crafts,

Assyllamar, and the Gothic and Moorish Berkeley City Club, the Oakland-raised architect created many of California's most distinctive buildings.

That includes, of course, Hearst Castle, which dominated the later years of her career.

We'll talk about her life and work with the author of a new book, Julia Morgan,

an intimate biography of the Trailblazing Architect.

Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal.

Julia Morgan is best known as the architect of the opulent, eccentric, Hearst Castle,

but she designed roughly 700 buildings in her 50-year career.

From the very first time I saw the gorgeous pool at the Berkeley City Club, I was taken by the gracefulness of her work, the way the arches of that space worked

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