Posts Tagged ‘california’
Dr. Kevin Starr on the California Dream
There’s no better way to understand the issues and people shaping California today than through its colorful and complex history. Few understood the depth of that history better than Dr. Kevin Starr, the late author of a definitive eight-volume…
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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