Building Seagram /
Phyllis Lambert ; foreword by Barry Bergdoll
Yale University Press,
New Haven [etc.] : 2013
xiv, 306 p. : il.
ISBN 9780300167672
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72.011.27 BUI
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previously unpublished personal archives, company correspondence, and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.
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DOCUMENTACIÓN
Building Seagram, por Phyllis Lambert
Metalocus, 2013-01-12
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