Who Was Julia Morgan?

May West, Madame Curie, and Coco Channel. What do they have in common?  Notoriety: we remember their names and what they did.  In contrast, we might struggle to name a single female architect from that time period. Though there are many coffee table books filled with pictures and stories about her projects, ‘Julia Morgan remains a mystery to this day,’ noted one of the Special Collection’s librarians at Berkeley. As a…