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Finding Julia Morgan
99% Invisible
Women's Architecture - A Woman's Journey
morgan landed in paris right when the doors opened. She got to know these women, and they very much supported her. They kept pressuring the faculty to allow women to take entrance examinations. Long story short, she failed. But she took that in stride. Everybody failed at least once. These entrance examinations, especially for architecture, were extraordinarily difficult. In october of 18 98, she took the examinations for a fourth time. She was thirteenth out of almost 400 applicants. So now she's 27 years old, and she had until the age of 30 to accomplish whatever she was going to accomplish. This young american woman wanted to pursue architecture. How pazar was that?
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