Posts Tagged ‘architecture’
Swooning over San Francisco’s Tetris house
In one of San Francisco’s historic neighborhoods, largely defined by Victorian homes in singular shades of pastel, one house stands out. Painted in blocks of lime green, aquamarine, deep plum, and seemingly every hue in between, the house looks almost pixelated, or as some neighbors have pointed out, like a giant game of Tetris. In…
Read MoreJulia Morgan, California’s trailblazing female architect
Julia Morgan, born in Oakland in 1872, was the first woman licensed to practice architecture in California. She designed more than 700 buildings of almost every type, including one of California’s grandest structures: Hearst Castle. By the time of her death in 1957, her Beaux-Arts background was being overshadowed by the rise of Modernism. But…
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