User:Vgorostiaga/Julia Morgan
Early Life and Education
[edit]Add source to the statement about her father and his business ventures.[1]
Rephrase the sentence about her graduating with honors in civil engineering to include the fact that she was the first woman to do that at the University of California in Berkeley.[2][3]
Morgan and her cohort founded a chapter of the YWCA and gained access to the gymnasium for all women at the University of California in Berkeley. [3]
Consider including that at the École des Beaux-Arts they graded work anonymously which helped Morgan graduate on her time crunch.[1]
Career
[edit]Add sources to the line about her being the first woman in California to obtain an architecture license.[4][1][3]
Consider adding that Bernard Ransome took the credit for much of her work on El Campanil as he saw himself as the true concrete expert.[1] Much of the praise that she received at the time was veiled in gendered rhetoric. For example a speaker at the dedication ceremony praised El Campanil for being "reared by the genius of a woman's brain."[1]
Morgan became the unofficial principle architect for Mills College for the next two decades.[1]
Personal Life
[edit]Dorothy Wormser Coblentz even described Morgan as a "nobody" due to her sense of fashion.[1]
She gave few interviews and did not write about herself.[1]
Many early interviews used gendered rhetoric to speak about her and her accomplishments which did not help with earlier newspapers who followed her progress at the École des Beaux Arts, leading her to favor a more private life.[1][3]
- ^ a b c d e f g h i McNEILL, KAREN (2007). "Julia Morgan: Gender, Architecture, and Professional Style". Pacific Historical Review. 76 (2): 229–268. doi:10.1525/phr.2007.76.2.229. ISSN 0030-8684.
- ^ Leddy, Thomas (September 2007). "Julia Morgan, Architect, and the Creation of the Asilomar Conference Grounds by quacchia, russell". Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism. 65 (4): 432–434. doi:10.1111/j.1540-594X.2007.00277_8.x. ISSN 0021-8529 – via JSTOR.
- ^ a b c d McNeill, Karen (2012). ""WOMEN WHO BUILD": Julia Morgan & Women's Institutions". California History. 89 (3): 41–74. doi:10.2307/23215875. ISSN 0162-2897 – via JSTOR.
- ^ Stevens, Suzanne (May 2014). "A woman for all reasons: Julia Morgan's impressive legacy of architectural achievements from her 45-year practice in San Francisco has won her the AIA Gold Medal for 2014". Architectural record. 202: 58–60, 62, 65 – via EBSCOhost.