He seems intent upon uniting several geometrical and structural ideas in tense unities which touch the mind and senses of the observer in a direct way. Historical echoes are abundant, but it is possible to overplay these, and to forget that Kahn transcends his sources, establishing an order of his own. While it does condense and distil images, this order is above all abstract. Kahn uses a Modernist abstraction to contain a complex content, even sometimes to suggest a metaphysical void. His work escapes stylistic categories, sometimes touching archetypal levels in experience.