as this month’s Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography of the Trailblazing Architect, by Victoria Kastner (Chronicle, $32.50), demonstrates and decodes. She is also among the most accomplished ...

The hotel’s owners, determined to rebuild, turned to a young architect, Julia Morgan. Only three years earlier she had built a bell tower on the campus of Mills College, and it had withstood the ...

Hearst Castle, a California landmark, is one of about 700 buildings designed by architect Julia Morgan in the first half of the 20th century. (Alexander Vertikoff/Chronicle Books) Review by ...

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One of Northern California's most beloved architects, Julia Morgan, has received the top honor that an American architect can win - 56 years after her death. On Thursday, the American Institute of ...

Mark Wilson was first smitten by the architecture of Julia Morgan in the early 1970s while he was working on his bachelor’s degree in history at the University of California, Berkeley.

When author Victoria Kastner first visited Hearst Castle, she was surprised to find that California's most famous estate was designed by a woman whom most people had never heard of: architect Julia ...

Built in 1908, this Berkeley home was the first property renowned architect Julia Morgan designed after establishing her own practice. Now, for the first time in almost 50 years, 2816 Derby St. is ...

The original house was completed in 1917 for Abraham Rosenberg, whose family made a fortune packing and shipping dried fruit from California, according to the 2007 book “Julia Morgan: Architect ...

Julia Morgan in 1904 became the first licensed female architect in California. Her great patron was newspaper plutocrat William Randolph Hearst, for whom she designed the grand Herald-Examiner ...