Anne Tyng- Inhabiting Geometry
Under the guidance of the late visionary architect and theorist, Anne Tyng, Kristen Smith collaborated with Srdjan Weiss with Normal Architecture Office to conceive an immersive installation that realizes the ambition of all Tyng’s work: to inhabit geometry. Since the 1950s, when she worked closely with Louis I. Kahn and independently pioneered habitable space-frame architecture, Tyng has applied natural and numeric systems to build forms at all scales, from urban plans to domestic spaces. This exhibit, first displayed at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia and later at the Graham Foundation in Chicago, was Tyng’s first retrospective exhibit. Curated by Ingrid Schaffner, Srdjan Weiss, and William Whittaker, the exhibit also features a selection of drawings, models and documentation of Tyng’s past projects from the University of Pennsylvania archive.