The Kahn Cube was generated as a sculpture proposal for a public park celebrating Louis I. Kahn's contribution to Philadelphia, at 10th and Pine Streets in center city. Though the proposal was not accepted, it did inspire a family of objects which are among the most engaging in the collection.

		
		"The Kahn Cube, I call it, I did it for Lou Kahn Park ... 
		they had a ... little park they were going to do for him .. 
		and I was asked by the architects ... [Peter Saylor]  
		I said I don't believe in monuments, but I'll 
		do something ... appropriate, and so I chose this cube, and I 
		was going to make it six feet by six feet out of French Creek 
		granite .. real black, and hard ... and it kept ringing ... 
		we were going to cut it out of one block of granite ... 
		then it went before the art committee, the art committee 
		didn't know Lou Kahn, they found my piece to be inappropriate 
		to the memory of an architect, I don't know what would 
		be more appropriate than a six-foot cube for an architect ... 
		I think someone on the Art Commission did the actual commission, 
		and it ended up being a shooting star, cast in aluminum, which 
		is certainly much better than a cube, [laughs] without a 
		doubt ... because Kahn was very bubbly and evervescent, that's 
		what they said"  ... [mine] involved the diagonal of a cube, 
		he used the diagonal in the Richards Building, [important in the 
		entrance and the structure of that building] I thought it was 
		appropriate, it's a nice form, it would have been a nice size."  

			  

IMAGE	NAME	DESCRIPT	MED	SIZE	QTVR	QTMOVIE	ARTIST'S WORDS
[A.033]	Kahn Cube	eroded cube	paper	-6"
[95.376]		6 fused tetrahedrons	paper	-6"
[?????]		12 fused tetrahedrons	paper	-6"