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… Read more
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My Architect: A Son's Journey
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Movie · Documentary
2003 · 1h 56m · ★ 71% (5.4K)
A man. His buildings. His secret lives.
Director: Nathaniel Kahn
Starring: Edmund Bacon, Edwina Pattison Daniels, Balkrishna Doshi
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.
Director
Nathaniel Kahn
Cast
Edmund Bacon, Edwina Pattison Daniels, Balkrishna Doshi, Frank Gehry, Philip Johnson, Louis Kahn, Nathaniel Kahn, Sue Ann Kahn, Haym Richard Katz, Harriet Pattison, Priscilla Pattison, I.M. Pei, Moshe Safdie, Robert A.M. Stern, Alexandra Tyng, Anne Tyng, Shamsul Wares