Julia Morgan was the first woman to graduate UC Berkeley's civil engineering program and the first licensed female architect in California. She designed over 700 structures, including Hearst Castle and a Presidio Heights home now listed for $36 million. She won the AIA Gold Medal in 2014, the first woman to receive it.
The most prolific historic Bay Area architect has to be Julia Morgan. Born in San Francisco and a graduate of UC Berkeley, she's a frickin' rockstar. First woman to graduate UC Berkeley's civil engineering program, first woman to be admitted to the Department of Architecture in Paris, and the first woman to receive an architecture license in California. In 2014, she became the first woman to receive the AIA Gold Medal for Architecture more than 50 years after her death. Morgan holds the record for total completed structures designed by a single architect with over 700 buildings, most of which are houses. And they range from the insane Hearst Castle in San Simeon to historic, incredible homes like one in Presidio Heights, San Francisco, which is on the market right now for a staggering $36 million. Follow me for more Bay Area history.
