Phyllis Lambert

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

Life

Lambert is the second child of Jewish industrialist Samuel Bronfman. She attended the private school The Study in Westmount, Quebec, and made in 1948 with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vassar College. 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 they had operated in Paris as a sculptor. In New York City, she dealt with no prior knowledge of architecture and construction planning. In 1963 she completed her studies at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois from.

Works

In the 1950s, Lambert designed the Saidye Bronfman Centre in Montreal, today's Segal Centre for Performing Arts. In planning the 1958 finished Seagram Building in Manhattan, they made ​​sure that Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, was the chief architect. Along with this, she designed in the subsequent period, the Toronto-Dominion Centre.

When restoring the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles by architect Gene Summers, she worked as a project developer.

Commitment to the community

Lambert was. Their work in various local associations to a prominent representative to protect older buildings or districts in her hometown They even took part in a protest against the project developer Cadillac Fairview, whose board they belonged.

The Canadian Centre for Architecture, a museum and research center in the Shaughnessy Village on the outskirts of Montreal, was founded by Lambert and generously financially equipped. At the same time she became involved in a much-needed revitalization campaign for the community 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

The painter RB Kitaj a 105 × painted 1997/1998 105 cm large painting by Lambert titled titled The Modernist ( PL), which today is owned by the sitters.

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 ( ISBN formally wrong ).
  • The Architecture of Kuwabara, Payne, McKenna, Blumberg. Birkhauser Verlag, Basel / Berlin / Boston 2004, ISBN 3-7643-6224-3.
  • Seagram Building. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2013, ISBN 978-0-300-16767-2.
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