Phyllis Lambert Accepts NBM's 2006 Vincent J. Scully Prize

Phyllis Lambert Accepts NBMs 2006 Vincent J Scully Prize
The National Building Museum presented its seventh Vincent J. Scully Prize to Phyllis Lambert.

The Museum's Prize recognizes Lambert's outstanding contributions to the design of the built environment, advancement of public awareness of design, and dedication to architectural preservation.

Over the past 50 years, Phyllis Lambert-architect, educator, activist, and philanthropist-has championed excellence in the design of the built environment and worked to improve public understanding of modern design.

The ceremony and public program in the Museum's Great Hall featured an illustrated lecture by Ms. Lambert, Ironies in the Public Life of Architecture: The Seagram Building, 1954-58, focusing on the public reception and long-term impact of the Seagram Building on architectural culture.

Her talk was preceded by opening remarks from Chase Rynd, executive director of the Museum, tributes from the Honorable Frank McKenna, ambassador of Canada to the United States of America; Pierre Th�berge, director of the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa; and Elizabeth Diller, founding principal of Diller, Scofidio + Renfro, and a presentation of the Prize by David Schwarz, chair of the Scully Prize Jury.

'Contemporary architecture owes Ms. Lambert a great deal, not only for the Seagram Building, surely one of modern