Gae Aulenti, Ada Louise Huxable and Phyllis Lambert, three women in the city

They were pioneers. Did they know each other? Not sure. But their destinies were close, as shown in the Canadian Cultural Center of Paris with the beautiful exhibition “Cross stories”, which ends on May 17. Gae Aulenti (1927-2012) was a designer and imagined the famous Pipistrello lamp. She also thought, among other things, the development of the Musée d’Orsay (Paris 7^e).

Ada Louise Huxtable (1921-2013) was critical, winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and covered architecture for the New York Times For decades, opening reflections and controversies that fed the public debate.

Phyllis Lambert, born in 1927, architect and philanthropist, designed in the 1950s, with Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe and Philip Johnson, Seagram Building, one of the most emblematic New York skills of the century. Three stories therefore, told using archive images, drawings and other documents. Three stories of women in a world of men but also, and above all, three visionary personalities, little known to the general public but whose imprint on contemporary metropolises was fundamental.