Anne Tyng

Her Ph.D. thesis entitled "Simultaneous Randomness and Order" pursued her interests in hierarchical symmetry and organic form.

Designing an addition to her parents' farmhouse in Maryland, she was also the first architect to frame a traditional peaked-roof house with fully triangulated three-dimensional truss.

Her fascination with complex geometrical shapes had a strong influence on several projects, most notably on the five cubes that comprise the Trenton Bath House and the triangular ceiling of Yale Art Gallery.

[7] After a nine-year relationship with Kahn, she became pregnant and, because of the potential scandal, turned down a Fulbright Scholarship and departed for Rome in the autumn of 1953.

During her year in Italy, Tyng studied with the structural engineer and architect, Pier Luigi Nervi, and wrote weekly to Kahn.

The house also was structured around the concept of a four-poster bed, with four central columns, each made from a cluster of four tree trunks.

[10] For her work in this field, in 1965 she became the first woman to receive a grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

In a letter recommending her to the Graham Foundation, Buckminster Fuller called her, "Kahn's geometrical strategist".

[13] During the filming, Tyng returned to the Trenton Bath House for the first time since its completion, finding it neglected and in disrepair.

Due in part to the attention that the film drew to the condition of the bath house, the building was completely renovated in 2009.