Alexan­dra Tyng is an award-win­ning fig­ure and land­scape painter. Her work has been exhib­it­ed world­wide and her por­trait of her father, Louis I. Kahn, is in the per­ma­nent col­lec­tion of the Smith­son­ian Nation­al Por­trait Gallery in Wash­ing­ton, DC. She is the author of Begin­nings: Louis I. Kah­n’s Phi­los­o­phy of Archi­tec­ture.