Main entry:

Lambert, Phyllis, author.

Title & Author:

Building Seagram / Phyllis Lambert ; foreword by Barry Bergdoll.

Publication:

©2013
New Haven, Connecticut ; London, England : Yale University Press, [2013]

Description:

xiv, 306 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 254-294) and index.
Foreword / Barry Bergdoll -- Acknowledgments -- Unlikely convergences -- A site and an architect for Seagram -- Mies van der Rohe's Ur-Building -- Richard Pare: plaza studies, 2000 and 2010 -- Union of building and plaza in the urban landscape -- Light: Philip Johnson's Stimmung -- Architecture and art allied -- Ironies in public life of architecture: regulation and the modern metropolis -- Sustaining architectural culture -- Changing hands -- Appendixes. 1. Phyllis Lambert to Samuel Bronfman, June 28, 1954 ; 2. Seagram Plaza installations and Seagram Gallery exhibitions -- 3. Some conservation issues as remembered by Arvid Klein and Tom Stetz of Pasanella + Klein -- Notes -- Index -- Illustration Credits.

Summary:

"The Seagram building rises over New York's Park Avenue, seeming to float above the street with perfect lines of bronze and glass. Considered one of the greatest icons of twentieth-century architecture, the building was commissioned by Samuel Bronfman, founder of the Canadian distillery dynasty Seagram. Bronfman's daughter, Phyllis Lambert, was twenty-seven years old when she took over the search for an architect and chose Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), a pioneering modern master of what he termed "skin and bones" architecture. Mies, who designed the elegant, deceptively simple thirty-eight-story tower along with Philip Johnson (1906-2005), emphasized the beauty of structure and fine materials, and set the building back from the avenue, creating an urban oasis with the building's plaza. Through her choice, Lambert established her role as a leading architectural patron and singlehandedly changed the face of American urban architecture. Building Seagram is a comprehensive personal and scholarly history of a major building and its architectural, cultural, and urban legacies. Lambert makes use of previously unpublished personal archives, company correspondence, and photographs to tell an insider's view of the debates, resolutions, and unknown dramas of the building's construction, as well as its crucial role in the history of modern art and architectural culture."-- Book jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

9780300167672
0300167679

Subject:

Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969.
Johnson, Philip, 1906-2005.
Bronfman, Samuel, 1891-1971.
Lambert, Phyllis
Johnson, Philip 1906-2005
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig 1886-1969
Seagram Building (New York, N.Y.)
Skyscrapers New York (State) New York Design and construction.
Modernism (Art) New York (State) New York.
Architecture New York (State) New York History 20th century.
Office buildings New York (State) New York Design and construction.
Tall buildings New York (State) New York Design and construction.
Seagram Building (New York, N.Y.) Ouvrages illustrés
Architecture New York (État) New York Histoire 20e siècle.
Immeubles de bureaux New York (État) New York Conception et construction.
Gratte-ciel New York (État) New York Conception et construction.
Immeubles de grande hauteur New York (État) New York Conception et construction.
Modernisme (Art) New York (État) New York.
Tall buildings Design and construction
Office buildings Design and construction
Architecture
Buildings
Modernism (Art)
Skyscrapers Design and construction
Architektur
Ausstattung
Verwaltungsbau
New York (N.Y.) Buildings, structures, etc.
New York (State) New York
Seagram Building

Form/genre:

Correspondence.
History

Added entries:

Bergdoll, Barry. author of foreword.

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