Книга: Phyllis Lambert, Barry Bergdoll «Building Seagram»

Phyllis Lambert

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Born in Montreal, she studied at Vassar College (BA in 1948). She moved to France in 1949 and married Baron Jean Lambert, a banker and Rothschild cousin, but they divorced in 1954.

She moved to New York City in 1954 and became involved in architecture; she graduated from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1963. In the 1960s, she designed the Saidye Bronfman Centre in Montreal, named after her mother. Working with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe she was also influential in his two most successful skyscraper projects, the Seagram Building and the Toronto-Dominion Centre.

In 1979, she founded the Canadian Centre for Architecture, a museum and research centre in Montreal with an international reputation. She has donated generously to the Centre, giving it 750,000 shares of Seagram.

In 1990 she received an honorary DFA in Architecture from the Pratt Institute. In 1992, she was made Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de France. She holds honorary degrees from some 26 universities in North America and in Europe.

Her work includes:

* Seagram Building in New York with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (as director of planning).
* Restoration of the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles with Gene Summers (as developer).
* Toronto-Dominion Centre in Toronto with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (as consultant).
* Saidye Bronfman Centre in Montreal, Quebec with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

In 1985 she was made a Member of the Order of Canada, promoted to Officer in 1990, and promoted to Companion in 2001. In 1985, she was made a Knight of the National Order of Quebec and was promoted to Grand Officer in 2005.

In 2007 a documentary film about Lambert, "", was released by Filmoption International. The movie was directed by Teri Wehn-Damisch.

ee also

* Bronfman family

References

*Nicholas Faith, "The Bronfmans: The Rise and Fall of the House of Seagram" (2006).
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External links

* [http://www.greatbuildings.com/architects/Phyllis_Lambert.html Profile at greatbuildings.com]
* [http://thecanadianencyclopedia.com/index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=A1ARTA0009030 Biography at The Canadian Encyclopedia]
* [http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/01-19-2006/0004263835&EDATE= "Phyllis Lambert Accepts NBM's 2006 Vincent J. Scully Prize"]
* [http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=bdd4b9ee-9677-485a-803d-769d25e9578e&k=772 "Montreal Gazette" article on her 80th birthday celebration (includes time line)]

Источник: Phyllis Lambert

Barry Bergdoll

Barry Bergdoll is an art historian at Columbia University and Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.

Education

Bergdoll graduated from Columbia University in 1977 and studied at Cambridge University on a Kellett Fellowship 1977-79 before returning to Columbia to complete his Ph.D in 1986.

Academic career

Bergdoll's chief interest is architectural history, paricularly that of France and Germany since 1750. He studies architecture from an art historical approach, however, tying it to history, sociology, and culture. He has studied cultural representation in architecture, the evolution of architecture as a profession, and the intersections between artistic genres such as architecture and film. He has also worked on the problems of museumological exhibitions of architecture. Prior to joining MoMA, Bergdoll was the chair of the Department of Art History at Columbia. In 1993, he received a grant from the Graham Foundation for study on the impact of the fall of Communism on architectural teachings in Eastern Europe and Russia.

Curation

As a curator, Bergdoll has participated in several major architectural exhibitions, including "Mies in Berlin", shown in New York, Barcelona, and Berlin in 2001-3; "Le Panthéon: Symbole des Révolutions" shown in Montreal and Paris in 1989, and "Les Vaudoyers: une dynastie d'architectes" at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris in 1992. On January 1, 2007, Bergdoll succeeded Terence Riley as Chief Curator for Architecture and Design at MoMA. He is presently preparing a forthcoming exhibition at MoMA on the Bauhaus.

Recent works

*"Mies in Berlin" (2001)
*"European Architecture 1750–1890" (2000)
*"Léon Vaudoyer: Historicism in the Age of Industry" (1994)
*"Karl Friedrich Schinkel: An Architecture for Prussia" (1994)

External links

* [http://www.columbia.edu/cu/arthistory/html/dept_faculty_bergdoll.html Columbia University faculty page]
* [http://www.americanacademy.de/index.php?id=82 Biography at the American Academy in Berlin]
* [http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/08/07/24/10231446.html Gulf News article on Bergdoll & PS1]

Источник: Barry Bergdoll