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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Excellent Book About Many ThingsBy Carl E. Johnson Jr.I would subtitle this book: "Phyllis Lambert's Memoir". Ms. Lambert oversaw the entire project as the de facto owner's representative (and family member), apparently a dream job. She provides us with the background, architectural details, the resolution of architecture and building problems, the legal and zoning issues involved, and where the building stands today - all from the viewpoint of an artist who really cares about the building. I am a nontechnical, lay person, who enjoys reading about architecture, cityscape, and so. A few technical details were over my head, but not enough to make a difference. The author makes her points clearly and concisely. I especially liked the chapter at the end of the book about landmarking the property. I deem it very readable for the layman, but in no way dumbed down. There are plenty of illustrations, but none without a purpose. The illustrations are excellent and well used.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Required reading.By Kirk MillicanRequired reading for architects and anyone who cares about architecture and its role in our cities. The author Phyllis Lambert, along with other strong-willed and knowledgeable women such as Dominique de Menil and Ruth Carter Stevenson, did much to require the inter-relationships of the building's architecture, public spaces and plazas, interior spaces, and art into an integrated whole in the urban environments. Mrs. Lambert, as a young artist and later architect, describes well the personalities and accomplishments of architects Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson as they designed one of the most important buildings in the .8 of 9 people found the following review helpful. Finally, some genuine insight.By Bruce M. ColemanFor one of the most important buildings of the modern era, and one that has been written about so many times, this book finally delivers enough of the inside story to truly understand the "Why" of much of the building. Told from Lampert's inside seat it has to be considered the definitive version. Many of the photographs are seen for the first time.To be sure, one has to be a fan of the building and really want to know much more than has already been delivered by so many others. It is also fascinating to hear the story of what happened after its construction, the life of the building and how easily it could have all gone astray.Well done.

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 , 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 something of a joint biography: a history of this stately Park Avenue landmark that many consider the pinnacle of postwar architecture in New York, rendered through the lens of her vivid memories of its invention and of her privileged early years as the daughter of the liquor baron Samuel Bronfman, who founded the Seagram distilling empire. The book reveals many new details about a building that remains among the most studied of the modern era."—Mark Lamster, New York Times

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