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My Architect

United States

2003

116 Min
Color
1.33:1
English
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DIR Nathaniel Kahn

PROD Susan Rose Behr, Nathaniel Kahn

SCR Nathaniel Kahn

DP Robert Richman

CAST Edmund Bacon, Edwina Pattison, Balkrishna Doshi, Frank O. Gehry, Philip Johnson

MUSIC Joseph Vitarelli

Synopsis

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 visitng his father’s buildings and haunts in this film, meeting his father’s contemporaries, colleagues, students, wives, and children. —IMDb

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FORGIVING A BASTARD FATHER

By PARIS MTN SCOUT on June 14, 2011

MY ARCHITECT is Nathaniel Kahn’s personal journey to forgiveness and reconciliation with his rogue father, one of the 20th Century’s most brilliant architects.

Kahn’s film moves along patiently…  read review

Fantasy VS. Art

By pflomba​rd on June 28, 2010

As screened at Cinemuse
I think Louis Kahn’s life is a classic example of the struggle ‘authentic’ artists face in pursuing their ideals…  read review

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