Bronfman relented, allowing his daughter to find an alternate architect for the building. Pereira & Luckman's design was still publicly marketed as a "preliminary model", but as Olga Gueft of "Interiors" magazine said, media reports suggested the original plan "had been dumped overboard". Lambert became acquainted with Johnson, then the departmental director of architecture and design at the Museum of Modern Art. Following Johnson's recommendation, Lambert examined several leading Modernist architects and conducted several interviews. Mies van der Rohe was selected to design the building in November 1954. Bronfman, having approved Mies's selection, designated his daughter as the building's planning director. Lambert received a $20,000 salary from this position. Because Mies was not a licensed architect in New York state, Johnson was selected as co-architect and Kahn and Jacobs as associate architects.