17 Facts About Anne Tyng

Anne Griswold Tyng was an architect and professor.

Anne Tyng is best known for having collaborated for 29 years with Louis Kahn at his practice in Philadelphia.

Anne Tyng served as a professor at the University of Pennsylvania for 27 years, teaching classes in urban morphology.

Anne Tyng was a fellow of the American Institute of Architects and an academician of the National Academy of Design.

Anne Tyng is the first woman licensed as an architect by the state of Pennsylvania.

Anne Tyng received her bachelor's degree from Radcliffe College in 1942.

Anne Tyng was the only woman to enter the architecture licensing exam in 1949.

Anne Tyng's dissertation was titled, "Simultaneous Randomness and Order: the Fibonacci-Divine Proportion as a Universal Forming Principle".

Anne Tyng's collected papers are held in the university's architectural archives.

Anne Tyng was a theorist known for her passion for mathematics and her pioneering work in space frame architecture, in which interlocking geometric patterns are used to create light-filled spaces.

Anne Tyng was particularly interested in platonic solids and in Jungian thought.

In 1945, Anne Tyng moved to Philadelphia and became employed at Louis Kahn's architectural practice, Stonorov and Kahn.

Anne Tyng said that the concept for Kahn's famous "City Tower" design was largely her invention, although when the model was included in a show at the Museum of Modern Art, at first, Kahn left her name off of the credit label.

Anne Tyng showed her developed sense of mathematics and design early in her life.

Anne Tyng designed the Four-Poster House in Mount Desert Island, Maine.

In 1989, Anne Tyng published the essay, "From Muse to Heroine, Toward a Visible Creative Identity", which was a study of the development of creative roles by women in architecture.

At 82, Anne Tyng appeared in Nathaniel Kahn's documentary about his father, My Architect, discussing her insights into the work of Louis Kahn and her experience as his partner.