Julia Morgan An Intimate Portrait Of The Trailblazing Architect
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Julia Morgan An Intimate Portrait Of The Trailblazing Architect
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Author : Victoria Kastner
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2022-02-15
Julia Morgan An Intimate Portrait Of The Trailblazing Architect written by Victoria Kastner and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
This new biography—featuring over 150 archival images and full-color photographs printed throughout—introduces Julia Morgan as both a pioneering architect and a captivating individual. Julia Morgan was a lifelong trailblazer. She was the first woman admitted to study architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and the first licensed to practice architecture in California. Over the first half of the 20th century, she left an indelible mark on the American West. Of her remarkable 700 creations, the most iconic is Hearst Castle. Morgan spent thirty years constructing this opulent estate on the California coast for the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst—forging a lifelong friendship and creative partnership with him. Together, they built a spectacular and unequalled residence that once hosted the biggest stars of Hollywood's golden age, and that now welcomes hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. This compelling biography draws on interviews, letters, and Morgan's diaries, including never-before-seen reflections on faith, art, and her life experiences. Morgan's friendship with Hearst, her passion for California's landscape, her struggles with familial dementia, and her devotion to architecture reveal her to have been a singularly brilliant and determined artist. PREVIOUSLY UNPUBLISHED CONTENT: Victoria Kastner has spent years compiling photographs, interviews, letters, drawings, and diaries—including material never published before—to create the first truly comprehensive portrait of this amazing woman. OVER 150 PHOTOGRAPHS: This book features over 150 photographs, printed throughout the text. These include both fascinating archival images and beautiful, full-color contemporary shots of Morgan's buildings. INSPIRING STORY: By exploring both Morgan's work and her life, Kastner weaves a captivating tale about courage, vision, and resilience. Julia Morgan forged a path for herself against the odds, and her story will inspire contemporary women and creatives. ARCHITECTURAL ICON: Julia Morgan created 700 buildings during her career, from hotels to churches to private homes. Born in San Francisco and trained in Paris, she developed a distinctive aesthetic that now defines certain regions of California. But only in the last twenty years has her contribution to architecture been fully recognized and celebrated. In 2014, the American Institute of Architects' posthumously awarded her its Gold Medal; she was the first female recipient. Perfect for: • History buffs • Students, enthusiasts, and professional architects • Aspiring creatives in all fields • Feminists seeking role models • Visitors to Hearst Castle and Morgan's other buildings • Californians and visitors to California
Julia Morgan Architect
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Author : Sara Holmes Boutelle
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Julia Morgan Architect written by Sara Holmes Boutelle and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Architecture categories.
Biography of Julia Morgan one of the first women to graduate in civil engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and the first women to earn a certificate in architecture from Ecole de Beaux-Arts in Paris
Hearst Castle
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Author : Victoria Kastner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000-11
Hearst Castle written by Victoria Kastner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-11 with Architecture categories.
Illustrated here are the Castle's Spanish ceilings and other architectural fragments, medieval tapestries, Renissance furniture, nineteenth-century sculpture, and wide-ranging examples of European decorative arts, including ceramics, metalworks, textiles, and more."--BOOK JACKET.
Julia Morgan Pb
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Author : Mark Anthony Wilson
language : en
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Release Date : 2012-03
Julia Morgan Pb written by Mark Anthony Wilson and has been published by Gibbs Smith this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03 with Architecture categories.
Julia Morgan, America’s first truly independent female architect, left a legacy of more than 700 buildings, many of which are now designated landmarks, in cities throughout California, as well as in Hawaii, Utah, and Illinois. Her work spanned five decades, and the total of her commissions was greater than any other major American architect, including Frank Lloyd Wright. This book tells the remarkable story of this architectural pioneer, and features text, drawings, and photographs of the many buildings that still exist.
Hearst S San Simeon
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Author : Victoria Kastner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-05
Hearst S San Simeon written by Victoria Kastner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05 with Architecture categories.
A decadeslong collaboration between publisher William Randolph Hearst and architect Julia Morgan produced the formal terraces, swimming pools, and plants and sculptures that occupy the 120 acres of gardens and 450 square miles of coastland of San Simeon, now a California State Park. Their extensive correspondence reveals a captivating working relationship with shared concerns over every aspect of the enormous project. Hearst Castle historian Kastner's (Hearst Castle: The Biography of a Country House) biography of a man and of an estate is also a social study of the periodthe famous and infamous Hollywood figures who peopled the house and its grounds, the lavish lifestyle, and the mythical tales about its owner. The superb photos by Garagliano, photographer at San Simeon since 1994, capture some of the elegant views, the vast array of buildings, and the myriad details. This work of visual delight should whet the appetite for a visit to the real thing.Paula Frosch, Metropolitan Museum of Art Lib., New York Copyright Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Bernard Maybeck
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Author : Sally Byrne Woodbridge
language : en
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Release Date : 2006-10-30
Bernard Maybeck written by Sally Byrne Woodbridge and has been published by National Geographic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-30 with Architecture categories.
Now available in paperback, this bestselling volume chronicles one of the most innovative, influential, and beloved architects of the early 20th century. Gracefully written and brilliantly illustrated, this handsome new volume captures the vision, the wit, and the down-to-earth inventiveness of one of the most influential and beloved architects of the early twentieth century. Raised in Greenwich Village and trained in Paris, Maybeck spent most of his long career in northern California. An irrepressible bohemian with no desire to run a large office, he spent much of his time designing houses for friends and family, as well as for other patrons so loyal that they often hired him to design more than one house. Maybeck also created two of the most beautiful buildings in all of California: the exhilarating Church of Christ, Scientist, in Berkeley, and the gloriously romantic Palace of Fine Arts, in San Francisco. This incisive overview—the first to feature color reproductions of Maybeck's exquisite interiors and exteriors—analyzes every aspect of his life and work. Not only his architecture but also his furniture, his lighting designs, and his innovations in fire-resistant construction are thoroughly discussed and illustrated. The book is also enlivened by documentary photographs, by clearly drawn plans, and by several of Maybeck's dazzling, previously unpublished visionary drawings. Bernard Maybeck is a major study of an internationally significant architect whose environmentally responsive work has much to offer today's designers and whose houses have given enormous pleasure to those fortunate enough to visit or dwell in them.
Hearst The Collector
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Author : Mary L. Levkoff
language : en
Publisher: ABRAMS
Release Date : 2008
Hearst The Collector written by Mary L. Levkoff and has been published by ABRAMS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
Architects Of Buddhist Leisure
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Author : Justin Thomas McDaniel
language : en
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Release Date : 2018-04-30
Architects Of Buddhist Leisure written by Justin Thomas McDaniel and has been published by University of Hawaii Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-30 with Religion categories.
Buddhism, often described as an austere religion that condemns desire, promotes denial, and idealizes the contemplative life, actually has a thriving leisure culture in Asia. Creative religious improvisations designed by Buddhists have been produced both within and outside of monasteries across the region—in Nepal, Japan, Korea, Macau, Hong Kong, Singapore, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. Justin McDaniel looks at the growth of Asia’s culture of Buddhist leisure—what he calls “socially disengaged Buddhism”—through a study of architects responsible for monuments, museums, amusement parks, and other sites. In conversation with noted theorists of material and visual culture and anthropologists of art, McDaniel argues that such sites highlight the importance of public, leisure, and spectacle culture from a Buddhist perspective and illustrate how “secular” and “religious,” “public” and “private,” are in many ways false binaries. Moreover, places like Lek Wiriyaphan’s Sanctuary of Truth in Thailand, Suối Tiên Amusement Park in Saigon, and Shi Fa Zhao’s multilevel museum/ritual space/tea house in Singapore reflect a growing Buddhist ecumenism built through repetitive affective encounters instead of didactic sermons and sectarian developments. They present different Buddhist traditions, images, and aesthetic expressions as united but not uniform, collected but not concise: Together they form a gathering, not a movement. Despite the ingenuity of lay and ordained visionaries like Wiriyaphan and Zhao and their colleagues Kenzo Tange, Chan-soo Park, Tadao Ando, and others discussed in this book, creators of Buddhist leisure sites often face problems along the way. Parks and museums are complex adaptive systems that are changed and influenced by budgets, available materials, local and global economic conditions, and visitors. Architects must often compromise and settle at local optima, and no matter what they intend, their buildings will develop lives of their own. Provocative and theoretically innovative, Architects of Buddhist Leisure asks readers to question the very category of “religious” architecture. It challenges current methodological approaches in religious studies and speaks to a broad audience interested in modern art, architecture, religion, anthropology, and material culture.
The Designs Of William De Morgan
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Author : Martin Greenwood
language : en
Publisher: Richard Dennis Publications Di
Release Date : 1989
The Designs Of William De Morgan written by Martin Greenwood and has been published by Richard Dennis Publications Di this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with Antiques & Collectibles categories.
A complete record of the collection of designs in the V&A Museum, London.
Singular Women
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Author : Kristen Frederickson
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003-03-04
Singular Women written by Kristen Frederickson and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-03-04 with Art categories.
Contemporary art historians - all of them women - probe the dilemmas and complexities of writing about the woman artist, past and present. These 13 essays address the work and history of specific artists, beginning with the Renaissance and ending with the present day.
