Anne Griswold Tyng


General Information


Occupation: Architect

Date of Birth: 1920

Date of Death: December 27, 2011

Birth City: Kuling Kiangsi

Birth State/Province: Jiangxi

Birth Country: China

Resident City: Greenbrae

Resident State/Province: California

Resident Country: United States

Notes: Participant in the International Congress of Women in Architecture in 1976

Archive/Repository: IAWA Online Inventory at: http://spec.lib.vt.edu/iawa/inventories/Tyng.html

Sources: CV- Ms96-023 Ute Westrom Collection; Obituary


Specialties


Subject: Platonic solids

Description: interest in complex shapes influenced Kahns' work

Url: http://archrecord.construction.com/yb/ar/article.aspx?story_id=167689453

Notes: Design of Trenton Bathhouse, Yale Art Gallery were influenced by Tyng's concepts


Jobs


Employer: Stonorov and Kahn Architects

Title: Associate Architect

City: Philadelphia

State: Pennsylvania

Country: United States

Start Date: 1954

Notes: When Louis Kahn left this firm, Tyng followed him


Employer: Louis I. Kahn

Title: Associate Architect

City: Philadelphia

State: Pennsylvania

Country: United States

Start Date: 1945

End Date: 1974

Notes: Worked with Kahn until his death in 1974


Employer: Mill Creek Redevelopment

Title: Associate Consultant Architect


Employer: Philadelphia City Planning Commission

Title: Associate Consultant Architect

City: Philadelphia

State: Pennsylvania

Country: United States


Employer: Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority

Title: Associate Consultant Architect

City: Philadelphia

State: Pennsylvania

Country: United States


Employer: University of Texas-Austin

Title: Visiting Critic

City: Austin

State: Texas

Country: United States


Employer: Cooper Union

Title: Visting Professor

City: New York

State: New York

Country: United States


Employer: Drexel University

Title: Lecturer in Architecture

City: Philadelphia

State: Pennsylvania

Country: United States


Employer: T. Square Atelier Philadelphia

Title: Lecture in Metamorphology

City: Philadelphia


Employer: Carnegie-Mellon

Title: Visting Critic-Architecture

City: Pittsburg

State: Pennsylvania

Country: United States


Employer: Rennselaer Polytechnic University

Title: Visting Critic-Architecture

City: Troy

State: New York

Country: United States


Employer: Pratt University

Title: Lecturer in Architecture

City: New York

State: New York

Country: United States


Employer: Penn State

Title: teacher of architecture

State: Pennsylvania

Country: United States

Notes: Taught for 25 years


Collaborators


Name: Louis Kahn

Project: Proposed City Tower


Apprenticeships


No apprenticeships on record


Awards


Name: Fellow

Description: Graham foundation for advanced study in Fine Arts


Name: Brunner Grant

Description: New York Chapter American Institute of Architecture


Name: Honorable Mention Award

Description: Ingenious Structural Systems- AIA


Exhibitions


Title: Tyng Toy

Description: Exhibited throughout the United States and Europe


Title: Women in Design of Environment

Description: Philadelphia Chapter of A.I.A


Title: New Sources of Form Making

Description: Philadelphia Chapter of A.I.A


Title: The Divine Proportion in the Platonic Solids

Description: University of Pennsylvania, Graduate School of Fine Arts

City: Philadelphia


Title: Institute of Contemporary Art exhibit

Description: Retrospective of Anne Tyng's work

City: Philadelphia

State: Pennsylvania

Country: United States

Start Date: January 01, 2010


Notable Projects


No projects on record


Education


Institution: Radcliffe/ Harvard University

Degree: Bachelor of Architecture


Institution: Harvard Graduate School of Design

Degree: Master of Architecture

Notes: One of first women to graduate from Harvard's architecture school


Institution: University of Pennsylvania

Department: Graduate School of Art and Sciences

Degree: Ph.D. in architecture

End Date: 1944


Licensing


No licenses on record


Professional Affiliations


Organization: American Institute of Architects

Role: Fellow


Organization: National Academy of Design

Role: Academician


Publications By


Title: Topology and Organicism in the Work of Louis I. Kahn: Notes on the City Tower

Co-author: Antonio Juarez

Publication: Perspecta

Issue: 31

Page: 70-80

Notes: 2000


Title: The Energy of Abstraction in Architecture: A Theory of Creativity

Publication: Pratt Journal of Architecture

Volume: 1

Page: 32-38

Notes: Fall 1985


Title: Resonance Between Eye and Archetype

Publication: Via

Issue: 6

Page: 46-67

Notes: 1983


Title: Geometric Extensions of Consciousness

Publication: Zodiac

Issue: 19

Page: 130-173

Notes: 1969


Publications About


Title: American Architects and the Mechanics of Fame

Author: Roxanne Kuter Williamson

Publisher: University of Texas Press

City: Austin

Country: 190


Title: Louis I. Kahn: Beyond Time and Style

Author: Wiseman, Carter

Publication: Biograph


Title: Louis Kahn to Anne Tyng: The Rome Letters, 1953-1954

Author: Tyng, Anne Griswold

Publication: Book

Issue: ISBN-10: 0847820092

Publisher: Rizzoli

Date Published: December 15, 1997

Url: Amazon.com


Title: Anne Tyng, Louis Kahn Mentor and Lover, Dead at 91

Author: Saffron, Inga. The Philadelphia Inquirer

Publication: Architectural Record: Daily Headlines

Publisher: Architectural Record

Date Published: January 07, 2012

Url: http://archrecord.construction.com/yb/ar/article.aspx?story_id=167689453


Title: My Architect: a Son's Journey

Author: Kahn, Nathaniel, director

Publication: Documentary film

Publisher: Kahn, Nathaniel and Susan Rose Behn

City: Philadelphia

State: Pennsylvania

Country: United States

Date Published: November 12, 2003

Url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Architect

Notes: Louis Kahn's son, Nathanial directed this documentary. Dr. Tyng is interviewed and shown at the Trenton Bath House