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My Architect: A Son's Journey (2003)

My Architect: A Son's Journey (2003)

Documentary

A man. His buildings. His secret lives.

Release Date: 2003, November 12
Directors: Nathaniel Kahn
Countries: United States of America
Cast: Philip Johnson, Frank Gehry, I.M. Pei, Edmund Bacon, Edwina Pattison Daniels, Balkrishna Doshi, Louis Kahn, Sue Ann Kahn, Haym Richard Katz, Harriet Pattison, Priscilla Pattison, Moshe Safdie

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

architect life and career biographical documentary testimony modern architecture