Anne Tyng

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Anne Griswold Tyng (born July 14, 1920 in Lushan , China, † December 27, 2011 in Greenbrae , California ) was an American architect .

Life

Tyng was born the fourth child to a couple who emigrated from Boston to China, but the family returned regularly to the United States. After graduating from school, Tyng moved entirely to the USA. Tyng began studying architecture at Cambridge University in Boston in 1941 .

When the Second World War broke out, she switched to the Harvard Graduate School of Design , where Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer taught. She was one of the first women to be admitted there. She successfully completed her studies in 1944 and obtained her doctorate in 1949.

In 1945 she moved to Philadelphia, where she got her first job in the Stonorov and Louis Kahn office . She then became a companion of Kahn, who had been married since 1930. In 1952 she became pregnant by him and moved to Rome in the fall of 1953.

In 1975 she received a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania . In 1994, Anne Tyng was elected a member ( NA ) of the National Academy of Design in New York .

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In her thesis entitled Simultaneousness, Randomness and Order , she researched hierarchical symmetry and organic form. She became the first woman to receive a grant from the Graham Foundation in 1965 for her work in this field .

Her fascination with complex geometric shapes had a major influence on several projects, most notably on the Trenton Bath House and on the ceiling of the Yale Art Gallery .

Kahn's concept for the famous Philadelphia City Tower was essentially her idea, although the architect did not give her name when the model was on display at the Museum of Modern Art .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Graham Foundation - Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry (PDF, 183.55 kB)
  2. ↑ nationalacademy.org: Past Academicians "T" / Tyng, Anne Griswold NA 1994 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on July 18, 2015) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.nationalacademy.org
  3. ^ A / N Blog - Anne Tyng, 1920–2011
  4. ^ Saffron, Inga (January 7, 2012) Anne Tyng, 91, groundbreaking architect
  5. ↑ Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, Ramak Fazel Una vita geometrica
personal data
SURNAME Tyng, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tyng, Anne Griswold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese-American architect
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Lushan , China
DATE OF DEATH December 27, 2011
Place of death Greenbrae , California