Harriet Rochlin collection of material about women architects in the United States, 1887-1979.

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Harriet Rochlin collection of material about women architects in the United States, 1887-1979.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38272711

Collection consists of articles, clippings, correspondence, and photographs collected by Harriet Rochlin about women architects. Architects in the collection include: Julia Morgan, Margaret Young, Beverly Willis, Lutha Maria Riggs, Lilian J. Rice, Gertrude C. Morrow, Edla Muir, Cloethiel Woodard Smith, Hazel Wood Waterman, Judy Edelman, Lynne Paxton, Patricia Swan, and the Open Design Office.

12 boxes (6 linear ft.)

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7401483

University of California, Los Angeles

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Morgan, Julia, 1872-1957

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Julia Morgan (1872-1957) graduated from University of California, Berkeley's Civil Engineering department in 1894, studying architecture unofficially under Bernard Maybeck. With Maybeck's encouragement, she went on to study at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1898, Morgan became the first woman to study at the Ecole, graduating in 1900. Morgan returned to San Francisco in 1902, opening her own office in 1905. She went on to design over 700 buildings, including many local residences. ...

Rochlin, Harriet, 1924-

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Harriet Rochlin, was born and raised in Boyle Heights at a time when that Los Angeles neighborhood housed the largest mixed immigrant population--mostly Jewish and Mexican-- in the West. She graduated from the UC Berkeley in June, 1947, and a month later married UC architectural student, Fred Rochlin, a Jewish native of Nogales, Arizona. Both Westerners of an unnamed sub-culture--American, Jewish, Mexican--they expressed their predilections in attachment to their natal landscapes, foods, music, ...