Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs to his college, it can help reassure him that he does have that mind, does have that soul.

It includes interviews with such renowned architect contemporaries as Muzharul Islam B. Kahn did not arrive at his distinctive architectural style until he was in his fifties. Kahn's teaching career began at Yale University in 1947.

Influenced by ancient ruins Kahn created a style that was monumental and monolithic; his heavy buildings do not hide their weight their materials or the way they are assembled. Louis Kahn's works are considered as monumental beyond modernism. From 1957 until his death he was a professor of architecture at the School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania.