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Anne Griswold Tyng
Many of you have already seen this in the making in the WIP section, but here it is in its finished state. The subject is my mother, an architect, who just recently celebrated her 86th birthday.
She is reaching up to steady a hanging tensegrity model made of four triangles held together by the tension of the string connecting all the points and forming an icosahedron. It's one of her many geometric discoveries. The models below show different stages of construction of her "Four-Poster" house. The house is entirely a space frame with living spaces created by the structure. In the background is the faint drawing of a city tower she designed with my father back in the 1950s. It was an idea that was never built. I tried to keep the portrait simple but still show some of her major designs and explorations.
I asked her to wear the Chinese jacket because she was born in China and spent part of her childhood there.
The portrait is the second of three portraits destined for the Architectural Archives at the University of Pennsylvania.
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