The founder of the Canadian Centre for Architecture speaks on her photography and childhood in Montreal
In her 90s, Phyllis Lambert has become a devoted user of Instagram. Every few days, a new image pops up on her account, often of daylight playing across the terrace of her greystone house in old Montreal.
Her iPhone, her latest photographic device, is close at hand. Does she enjoy the power it gives her to express herself? “I don’t know what that idea of expressing yourself is,” she says, a bit of steel in her tone. Then she smiles. “It was just that I get so much pleasure out of doing it.” “The photographs become evidence of the place,” she says. “You observe and you observe again. You see how it works in the neighbourhood and you try to find out more about it.”
Life as a society wife did not suit her. “We would play canasta or bridge, and it was fine. But it was not for me. And so I got myself free.”long and complex career as a collector, curator, philanthropist and practising architect. She worked for the great German-American architect Mies van der Rohe.to design the Seagram Building in New York, one of the most significant structures of the 20th century.
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