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