Curated by Ingrid Schaffner

Best known for her twenty-five-year collaboration with Louis I. Kahn, architect Anne Tyng has received comparatively little recognition for her own rigorously theorized practice. The work of securing her legacy has been limited, for the most part, to setting the record straight on her involvement with several of Kahn’s key projects (notably the unbuilt City Tower, with its novel space-frame construction). But the ICA show foregrounds Tyng’s independent career. Working with consulting curator Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss, the ninety-year-old architect has designed inhabitable sculptures for the exhibition that build on her long-standing interest in Platonic solids and geometry. Situating Tyng in relation to contemporary design methods, the curators suggest that her mathematically derived structural and formal experiments anticipated current computational design techniques.

— Michael Wang