My Architect

Wed Mar 14, 2012

20:30

Location

The Shoe Factory
304 Ermou Street
Nicosia, Nicosia

Description

World-famous architect Louis Kahn (Exeter Library, Salk Institute, Bangladeshi Capitol Building) had two illegitimate children with two different women outside of his marriage. Son Nathaniel always hoped that someday his father would come and live with him and his mother, but Kahn never left his wife. Instead, Kahn was found dead in a men's room in Penn Station when Nathaniel was only 11. Nathaniel travels the world visiting his father's buildings and haunts in this film, meeting his father's contemporaries, colleagues, students, wives, and children.

Louis I. Kahn is considered by many historians to have been the most important architect of the second half of the 20th century. A Jewish immigrant who overcame poverty and the effects of a devastating childhood accident, Kahn created a handful of intensely powerful and spiritual buildings - geometric compositions of brick, concrete and light.

Cast:
Edmund Bacon
Edwina Pattison Daniels
Balkrishna Doshi
Frank O. Gehry

Director: Nathaniel Kahn
Writer: Nathaniel Kahn
Runtime: 116 min
Genre: Documentary, Biography
Language: English
Production Year: 2003

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