by Jon Lackman | 23 February 2007 | Architecture
The Feb. 14 Architect’s Newspaper contains an appreciation of Phyllis Lambert. In it, Jean-Louis Cohen writes: “As shown by her recent contributions to the exhibition Mies in America (Whitney Museum of Art, 2001) and the journal Grey Room (2005), Phyllis Lambert is a rigorous scholar of North American architecture. But before all, while she could have been an enlightened debutante, she unquestionably has the stature of a woman of beginnings, an indefatigable and fierce initiator. I won’t surprise anyone by insisting that the initiation of New York to the rigor and elegance of Mies is hers; the initiation of the world’s largest collection of architectural photographs and then of a unique cultural center devoted to architectural culture is hers; and her stubborn, almost fanatical dedication to scholarship and to conceptual clarity has been an indispensable element of creative stability throughout the changing tides of North American architecture.”
