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    Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry

    Anne Tyng: Inhabiting Geometry

    Presented by Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) at Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)

    January 13-March 20, 2011


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    Visionary architect and theorist Anne Tyng has designed a gallery-scale model that embodies her thinking about geometry over the last half century. This installation—built largely from Luan plywood—realizes the ambition of all her 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 built forms on all scales, from urban plans to domestic spaces.

    The exhibition also features a selection of drawings, models, and other documentation of past projects, including: City Tower (with Kahn, 1952-1957); Urban Hierarchy (circa 1970); and the Four-Poster House (1971-1974). There are also examples of Tyng's publications and research, which investigate Jungian cycles, city squares, and the cosmos. Throughout, geometry is both rational and expressive, as much a means of contemplation as of calculation and construction.


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      • Venue Info

        Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA)

        S. 36th Street and Sansom Street
        University of Pennsylvania
        Philadelphia, PA 19104

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      • Admission Info

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        ICA admission is free for all!

      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        January 13-March 20, 2011

        Times:

        Wednesday, 11am - 8pm
        Thursday and Friday, 11am - 6pm
        Saturday and Sunday, 11am - 5pm
        Monday and Tuesday, closed.

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