Among the pioneers and honors who have nominated the California Fame Hall of Fame in 2008, there is a woman whose vision and skill are architect genius giants, but she was standing but the height is 5 feet . Julia Morgan's work adorns California far from the Bay Area, which is famous for the design and construction of Hearst Castle set in San Simeon Bay.
Architect by birth
Morgan was born in San Francisco in 1872 and got a degree in civil engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1894. Julia Morgan was not a first sign that a man was destined to become a trump card for a woman with a dominant profession but was a scout of a prominent career that paved the way for architectural innovation.
Her skills were finely polished at the world famous architectural school, Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Pushing the limit of the convention, she was refused admission twice. According to Morgan, her rejection was based only on gender. Finally, after joining the 13th out of 376 applicants taking a tough entrance exam, she became the first woman with a world-famous school architecture degree.
Career begins
Julia Morgan focused on the environment surrounding the building focused. She was able to successfully blend the rigorous classical training received in Paris with the country's scenic California landscape in a variety of nature variations. . In 1904, she showed her personality again and established her own building company in San Francisco. She started taking responsibility and started getting a reputation. One of her first tasks was building a northern star house in the Arts and Crafts style at the Grass Valley house at the foot of Sierra.
The extensive destruction of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake caused an interesting side effect as an urgent need to relax women's prejudice against architects. Her office is in Montgomery Street, collapsing among hundreds of people. From that intense design and reconstruction era, Julia Morgan never lost to work, her reputation was steadily great like her work.
Claims and individuals
Indeed, one of the hallmarks of hundreds of Morgan's houses, buildings, public buildings is eclecticism. Armed with her classic education, she was never caught in a specific trend, design, or architectural paradigm. Morgan designed the building considering the site, the use, the surrounding environment. Her work ranged from very brilliant and rich, from simple to functional things. She could work comfortably in many architectural styles and thought that each committee made a masterpiece unique to the site as a newly laid canvas.
Julia Morgan's work scope is equally concentrated. She built for billionaire like William Randolph Hearst, but attacked a more discreet project with the same devoted focus. Her public buildings include YWCA, Riverside Museum of Art and Los Angeles Examiner Building. She also worked extensively at Northern California college campus and designed the Mills College Bell tower as a building for churches and private houses.
She is most widely known for her work with the Hearst family. Crown jewels, of course, are Hearst Castle that millions of people visit every year. So, she remembered wearing stylish slacks and silk blouses, but in order to verify that the details of the design are being carried out properly by skilled craftsmen, carpenters, and masons, Julia Morgan has for many years We devoted effort, love, and creativity throughout, "La Cuesta Encantada" - built enormous real estate on The Enchanted Hill. As visitors from around the world know it takes several hours to evaluate 165 rooms, gardens, water features, acres that make the Hearst Castle wonder made by women on the Pacific Coast.
From Bavaria to Winton
Although not known so much, breathing was nevertheless breathed in the Bavarian village of Winton and was built in the 1930s. This was the 50,000 acre escape of Hearst in the shadow of Mount Shasta in northern California. On this premises with many trees, Julia Morgan felt the charm of Bavaria and Austria. The fragrance of pine trees and the scent of pine trees are vivid and clean air flows.
To comfort many Hearst's celebrities, Morgan designed three three-storey guest houses. Each wooden house had 4 to 8 bedrooms with a sitting room. Everyone sees the vast expanse of the grass, catches up with the awesome sound of the McCloud River and meanders the real estate.
Following the connection between her love and the natural environment, Morgan used local stones and wood for the construction of Bavaria village. Its effect is transcending time because the steep roof protrudes into the sky with many gables and chamfered windows surrounded by huge lumber. It seems as if a piece of Bavaria was lifted and settled quietly in California's landscape. But in closer examination, Julia Morgan 's genius feel raised the traditional architecture to a new height. Many artistic touch and rare customs Morgan has brought to the village are totally unique.
Morgan and sister Anna traveled to Hearst and Bavaria in 1931. Some experts may threaten the survival of Austria and Bavarian architectural treasure that Morgan and Hearst have speculated that this visit was aware of the rise of Adolf Hitler and decided to carry out the Bayern theme .
The guest house of Wyntoon Bavarian Village has the name of a fairy tale character such as Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty. New York's famous mural painter added artistry to the outer walls of the two buildings and drew a fantastic scene of the Grimm brother's story. Among the most decorated, there is Bear House, a private house in Hearst. There, the mural painter drew a scene of Snow White and Rose Red on the entire appearance of plaster.
Like many of the major projects at Julia Morgan, I chose male and female craftsmen and put handicrafts on her project. She never got married, but Morgan attracted a wealthy successor of friends and colleagues who had confidence and respect in her work. Wyntoon is an example of teamwork characterizing Julia Morgan's longstanding successful career.
Isolated end
After hundreds of remarkable projects and extensive perception of her considerable talent and leadership, the last year of Julia Morgan was spent on self isolated isolation. Morgan, who died a lot of friends and family, including Hurst who died in 1951, felt himself to fail. She decided to be lonely to express her passion that inspired her life as she could no longer work. She passed away on February 7, 1957 and left a fund for architects, scholarships and extraordinary work.
She has also left the road. Only the most bold and courageous young lady is the road that roughly cobbled with the cobblestone road for maneuvering. Today, the road is paved and many women architects stand on the strong reputation of California's original Julia Morgan.
