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"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 (18861969), 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 (19062005), 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 Lambert makes use of previously unpublished personal archives, company correspondence, and photographs to tell an insider's view of the debates, resolutions, and unknown dramas of the building's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."--Publisher description. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Lambert is a member of the Bronfman family that ran Seagram the corporation for many decades, and as such was heavily involved in planning and design of what became the Seagram Building. That closeness was an advantage when we learned much of the inside baseball that commissioned the legendary Mies as architect and delivered an improbably handsome and timeless building to Park Avenue. Ultimately, though, Lambert's insider status focused the narrative in the wrong places; I desperately wanted to know what it was like to be an everyday inhabitant of Seagram, or even one of the neighboring buildings. We got hints of it, and definitely coverage of the famed restaurant and the public plaza, but I was still left wanting on the office life of what is in the end an office building. ( )