Anne Tyng
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Anne Griswold Tyng (born July 14, 1920) is an architect and professor. She is best known for collaborating with Louis I. Kahn at his practice in Philadelphia. She served as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania for 27 years, following 29 years of collaboration with Kahn. She is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and Academician of the National Academy of Design.
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[edit] Work
Tyng is a theorist known for her pioneering work in space frame architecture and her passion for mathematics. Her Ph.D. thesis, titled Simultaneousness, Randomness and Order, continues the combination of these interests. She received a number of grants from the Graham Foundation for further investigation into this field. Tyng received her B. Arch from Harvard, and her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania.
[edit] Youth
Even as a young woman, Tyng showed her developed sense of mathematics and design. The Tyng Toy, a construction set for children, illustrated her mastery of form. The Tyng Toy allowed a small selection of pieces to be combined into a wide variety of toys and pieces of furniture, ranging from a stool to a rocking horse.
[edit] Kahn connection
Many wonder at how her intimate relationship with Kahn affected his architecture. She is named in many sources as his partner and muse. For example, the concept for Kahn's famous "City Tower" design was largely Tyng's invention.[citation needed] After a seven-year relationship with Kahn, Tyng departed in the Autumn of 1953 for Rome. During her year in Italy, where their daughter, Alexandra, was born, Kahn wrote weekly to Tyng.[1]
Aged 82, Anne Tyng appeared in Nathaniel Kahn's documentary My Architect discussing her insights into his work and her experience with Louis Kahn. Dr. Tyng returns to the building in which Kahn and Tyng first collaborated, the Trenton Bath House, for the first time since its completion,[2] finding it neglected and in disrepair.
[edit] External links
- Anne Tyng documents and sources
- Anne Tyng, "Number is Form and Form is Number". Interview by Robert Kirkbride, Nexus Network Journal, vol. 7 no. 1 (Spring 2005)
- IAWA Anne Tyng Inventory
- Philadelphia Architects and Buildings - Tyng, Anne Griswold
[edit] References
- ^ Tyng, Anne Griswold (1997). Louis Kahn to Anne Tyng: The Rome Letters, 1953-1954. Rizzoli. ISBN 0847820092.
- ^ Kahn, Nathaniel (Director). (2003, November 12). My Architect [Documentary].
