Phyllis Lambert
Autore di Mies in America
Opere di Phyllis Lambert
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Canada
- Luogo di residenza
- Montréal, Québec, Canada
- Relazioni
- Lambert, Jean (Ex-époux)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Vincent Scully Award (2006)
Utenti
Recensioni
Premi e riconoscimenti
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 14
- Utenti
- 156
- Popolarità
- #134,405
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 3
- ISBN
- 17
- Lingue
- 1
Lambert is a member of the Bronfman family that ran Seagram the corporation for many decades, and as such was heavily involved in planning and design of what became the Seagram Building. That closeness was an advantage when we learned much of the inside baseball that commissioned the legendary Mies as architect and delivered an improbably handsome and timeless building to Park Avenue. Ultimately, though, Lambert's insider status focused the narrative in the wrong places; I desperately wanted to know what it was like to be an everyday inhabitant of Seagram, or even one of the neighboring buildings. We got hints of it, and definitely coverage of the famed restaurant and the public plaza, but I was still left wanting on the office life of what is in the end an office building.… (altro)