My Architect(2003)

1h 56m
- Biography
- Documentary

Release Date: Nov 12, 2003 | Limited

Director Nathaniel Kahn searches to understand his father, noted architect Louis Kahn, who died bankrupt and alone in 1974.

Official Website

Releases

2023 Re-release (Abramorama) | Apr 7, 2023

Current Showtimes

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Director & Top Cast

Nathaniel Kahn
Director

Edmund Bacon
Self

Edwina Pattison Daniels
Aunt Eddie

Balkrishna Doshi
Self

Frank Gehry
Self

Philip Johnson
Self

Louis Kahn

Self

Nathaniel Kahn

Self

Sue Ann Kahn

Self

Haym Richard Katz

Richard Katz

Teddy Kollek

Self

Harriet Pattison

Self

Priscilla Pattison

Aunt Posie

I.M. Pei

Self

Moshe Safdie

Self

Robert A.M. Stern

Self

Alexandra Tyng

Self

Anne Tyng

Self

Technical Specifications

Sound Mix: Dolby SR

Aspect Ratio: 1.33 : 1

Other Details

Country of Origin: United States

Language: English

Summaries

Storyline

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. — Martin Lewison <dr@martinlewison.com>