The well-publicized announcement that Julia Morgan (1872–1957) is the recipient of the American Institute of Architects' Gold Medal for 2014—the first woman to receive the honor—naturally raises questions about why it took so long. She died 57 years ago. (We also might wonder about the logic of posthumous Gold Medals—but more about that later.) Whatever the nature of the debate, there should be no question about Morgan's deserving the award given “in recognition of a significant body of work of lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture.”
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