Sunday, March 21,
3-4pm Free Virtual Event, Register Here The Beach House and
Santa Monica Conservancy present a special commemoration of architect Julia
Morgan, California’s first licensed woman architect. Join Morgan scholar
Karen McNeill, Ph.D. for her talk entitled Julia Morgan and the Men Who Built Hearst
Castle. A leading expert on Julia Morgan, Dr. McNeill's work
focuses on women and gender in the architectural profession as well as how
Progressive Era women used the built environment to expand their roles
society as consumers, reformers, educators, and professionals. Dr. McNeill
has published multiple articles on the subject, with another about the Paris
years due next fall.
Noted for her collaboration with William Randolph Hearst to
create Hearst Castle in San Simeon, Morgan left a legacy of more than 700 projects
in her nearly five decades of practice. Posthumously awarded the AIA’s
highest honor, a Gold Medal, her brilliant and pioneering work continues to
gain public recognition. At the Beach House, Morgan designed the Guest House
and pool, which comprise the site’s historic core. Dr. McNeil’s work has been
supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Autry National
Center, the Bancroft Library, and the University of California Humanities
Research Institute. Beyond her work on Julia Morgan, she has taught history
and architectural history at colleges and universities in the San Francisco
Bay Area and has been involved in historic preservation. She is currently
Senior Family Historian at Ascent Private Capital Management of U.S Bank and
serves on the Board of Trustees of the Beverly Willis Architecture
Foundation, supporting the past, present, and future of women in architecture
and engineering.
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