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Mar 9, 2017 · Kahn married his wife, Esther, in 1930, and by all accounts it was a happy marriage in the early years. But as Kahn gained stature and built his own practice, he became romantically...
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With his wife Esther he had a daughter, Sue Ann. With Anne Tyng, who began her working collaboration and personal relationship with Kahn in 1945, he also had a daughter, Alexandra. When Tyng became pregnant in 1953, to mitigate the scandal, she went to Rome, for the birth of their daughter. [23]
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Nov 4, 2001 · By Paul Goldberger. November 4, 2001. When Louis Kahn collapsed and died of a heart attack in a men's room in Penn Station on a Sunday evening in March, 1974, he was the most celebrated architect ...
May 18, 2017 · By Wendy Lesser. Buy this book. This bizarre state of affairs didn’t end with Kahn’s death. Eventually, the New York Police Department made contact with his wife, Esther, who arranged to...
Apr 24, 2017 · A second revelation is that Esther, the “aggrieved” spouse, also had been having an affair with a research scientist from Penn (whose name, curiously, is never revealed). Kahn appears to have been too absorbed in his work to recognize any signs of Esther looking elsewhere for affection.
Despite their personality differences and the fact that, as Kahn’s wife, Esther, put it, “they were both too much of a primadonna,” this arrangement worked for a time, because each was clearly better than the other at his assigned task.
Mar 3, 2017 · In the wake of that film, which fully excavated the relationship between Kahn’s architecture and his unconventional personal life—which included a long marriage to his wife, Esther, but also children (including Nathaniel) born to two other women—it seemed that pretty much everything that could be said about Louis Kahn had been.
