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She believed that the five Platonic solids were the most basic archetypes upon which all organic structures, micro- and macrocosmic, were formed. — Architect
A diagram of the addition. Anne Tyng Collection, Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania"She was known as Louis Kahn's muse but never really escaped his shadow. What Tyng's only surviving solo project says about her legacy. The Rome Letters 1953–54 (Rizzoli), Kahn and another... View full entry
Anne Tyng, a pioneering woman architect whose ideas about geometry influenced Louis Kahn's buildings and who later had a child with him, died Tuesday, Dec. 27, in Greenbrae, Calif. She was 91, said her daughter, Alexandra, who lives outside Philadelphia.
Although Ms. Tyng was among the first group of women to graduate from Harvard University's architecture school in 1944, she struggled her entire career to be taken seriously. Firms would not hire her because she was a woman.
— philly.com
