Anne Tyng, who died Dec. 27 at 91, went to Radcliffe and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. You can't get better credentials than that, but she had to put up with being a smart, beautiful woman in an architectural profession run by men. She was fascinated by the role of geometry in design. In collaborations with the great American architect Louis Kahn, her lover for a time, she deeply influenced two of his signal projects, the Trenton Bath House and the Yale University Art Gallery. Kahn was interested in geometry, but Tyng, influenced by Buckminster Fuller, believed it had a...
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