Phyllis Lambert: 75 Years At Work

Name: Phyllis Lambert: 75 Years At Work
Start: 2017-01-18T11:00:00
End: 2017-06-11T18:00:00
Location: Canadian Centre for Architecture

Exhibition, Hall cases, 18 January 2017 to 11 June 2017

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Phyllis Lambert: 75 Years At Work. Installation view, 2017

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On the occasion of Phyllis Lambert’s ninetieth birthday, this exhibition offers an autobiographical glimpse into the evolution of the CCA founder’s ideas and her work as an architect, activist, editor, and curator. Highlighting her deep commitment to the city and to intellectual research, this display of archival material from the CCA’s collection, institutional archives, and Phyllis Lambert archives reveals the consistent radicalism of her life.

Curated by Phyllis Lambert
Graphic design: Sean Yendrys, New York / Montreal

Selected objects

Letter from Phyllis Lambert to Samuel Bronfman concerning the future Seagram Building, 28 June 1954. Phyllis Lambert fonds, CCA. ARCH278184

Ezra Stoller, photographer. Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson, architects; Kahn and Jacobs, associate architects; Phyllis Lambert, Director of Planning. View of the Seagram Building from northwest at dusk, 375 Park Avenue, New York, 1958. CCA. PH1990:0217

Phyllis Lambert. Model for a 747 airplane hangar, 1961–1962. Master class project, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Photograph by Aaron Siskind. Phyllis Lambert fonds, CCA

Richard Nickel, photographer. Phyllis Lambert, architect. Dancers in the theatre of the Saidye Bronfman Centre, 1968. Phyllis Lambert fonds, CCA. ARCH278508

Pier Associates. Composite photograph of Phyllis Lambert and David Fix in their studio, 403–409 East Illinois Street, Chicago, c. 1970. Phyllis Lambert fonds, CCA. ARCH250446

SOS Save Montréal. Report on Le Petit Seminaire, 17 January 1975. Photograph by Brian Merrett. Phyllis Lambert fonds, CCA

Mirror frame designed by Jim Dine for bedrooms at the Biltmore Hotel, Los Angeles, c. 1977. Photograph by Phyllis Lambert. Phyllis Lambert fonds, CCA. ARCH262517

Melvin Charney. The two intersecting sets of urban axes at the CCA Garden and the layers of the site, July 1987. Melvin Charney fonds, CCA. DR1990:0001

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