Despite designing over seven hundred buildings, the pioneering female architect Julia Morgan is now best known for a single, extremely eccentric commission: San Simeon, the estate of the legendary newspaper proprietor William Randolph Hearst. Half a
Julia Morgan For the first time in its history, and posthumously, the American Institute of Architects (AIA), has given its Gold Medal to a woman, Julia Morgan, acknowledging in this way the work of a pioneer who was influenced by the eclecticisms of
The most common variety of residential fiction is the classical simulacrum. Madrid’s example is pedagogical, because the contrast between the anorexic elegance of the structure and the bulimic solemnity of the prefabricated classical orders is repeat
