Phyllis Lambert

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Phyllis Lambert (born January 24, 1927 in Montreal , Québec , Canada ) is a Canadian architect , planner and philanthropist.

Life

Lambert is the second child of the Jewish industrialist Samuel Bronfman . She attended The Study private school in Westmount, Québec and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College in 1948 . In 1949 she went to France and married Baron Jean Lambert from the Rothschild family . The couple divorced in 1954.

In the same year Lambert went to New York City after working as a sculptor in Paris. In New York City, she dealt with architecture and construction planning without prior knowledge. In 1963 she graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago , Illinois .

Works

In the 1950s, Lambert designed the Saidye Bronfmann Center in Montreal, now the Segal Center for Performing Arts . When planning the Seagram Building in Manhattan , which was completed in 1958 , she made sure that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe became the chief architect. Together with this she designed the Toronto Dominion Center in the following period .

In 1957, Lambert acquired a six by six meter Le Tricorne stage curtain depicting a bullfight to furnish the Four Seasons restaurant on the ground floor of the Seagram Building . This was created in 1919 by Sergei Djaghilew , along with other items of equipment and costumes, by Pablo Picasso for the Paris premiere of the ballet of the same name by Manuel de Falla . In 2014, it became known that the owner of the Seagram Building is planning to replace the curtain with other works of art and is leaving it to the Museum of the New York Historical Society in West Central Park .

She worked as a project developer for the restoration of the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles by the architect Gene Summers .

Commitment to the general public

Through her work in various local associations, Lambert became a prominent representative for the protection of older buildings or even city districts in her hometown. She even took part in a protest against the project developer Cadillac Fairview , whose board of directors she was on.

The Canadian Center for Architecture , a museum and research center in Shaughnessy Village at the gates of Montreal, was founded by Lambert and generously funded. At the same time, she got involved in an urgently needed revitalization campaign for the community of Shaughnessy Village.

honors and awards

Lambert is a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada .

Others

In 1997/1998 the painter RB Kitaj painted a 105 × 105 cm painting by Lambert with the title The Modernist (PL) , which is still in the possession of the sitter today.

Publications

  • Editor and introduction to: Johan Bellaert: Fortification and the Synagogue: The Fortress of Babylon and the Ben Ezra Synagogue, Cairo . Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London 1994, ISBN 0-297-83339-9 .
  • The Architecture of Kuwabara, Payne, McKenna, Blumberg. Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel / Berlin / Boston 2004, ISBN 3-7643-6224-3 .
  • Building Seagram. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut 2013, ISBN 978-0-300-16767-2 .

literature

  • Nicholas Faith: The Bronfmans: The Rise and Fall of the House of Seagram. St. Martin's Press, New York 2006, ISBN 0-312-33219-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cherchez la femme! in FAZ of July 11, 2013, page R6
  2. ↑ The 2016 Wolf Prize Laureates
personal data
SURNAME Lambert, Phyllis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian architect, planner and philanthropist
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Montreal , Quebec , Canada