Author Description

After maintaining a prof'l. and personal relationship with architect Louis Kahn for 7 years, Anne Tyng left in 1953 for Rome. During her year in Italy, where their daughter was born, Kahn wrote weekly to Tyng, and his correspondence to her is published here. The 53 letters document not only their private relationships, but also give a vibrant account of the experience of a brilliant young architect on the cusp of achieving internat. renown. Tyng's intro. and epilogue frame Kahn's letters within the contexts of both their personal histories. Tyng's account of her own life reveals Tyng to be a gifted writer. Records the sequence of Kahn's and her work together, incl. their collaboration on such works as the Yale Univ. Art Gallery, as well as her independent architectural projects. Ill.