In this exclusive audiocast, Phyllis Lambert, founder of the world-renowned Canadian Centre for Architecture, is in conversation with Globe and Mail architecture critic Lisa Rochon. Listen in as Lambert discusses her life in New York and Paris in the early 1950s and her famous selection of Mies van der Rohe as architect of New York’s Seagram Building, completed in 1958.
The conversation, introduced by Marianne McKenna, partner with KPMB Architects Toronto, was recorded in conjunction with the 2008 Canadian Art Reel Artists Film Festival screening of Citizen Lambert: Joan of Architecture by Teri Wehn-Damisch. (Audio running time 32 minutes and 53 seconds)