My Architect: A Son's Journey
“A man. His buildings. His secret lives.”
2003•1h 56m•6.9•Released
Documentary
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
Writer
Nathaniel Kahn
Languages
English
Cast
Edmund Bacon
Self
Edwina Pattison Daniels
Aunt Eddie
Balkrishna Doshi
Self
Frank Gehry
Self
Philip Johnson
Self
Louis Kahn
Self (archive footage)
Nathaniel Kahn
Self
Sue Ann Kahn
Self
Haym Richard Katz
Richard Katz
Harriet Pattison
Self
Priscilla Pattison
Aunt Posie
I.M. Pei
Self
Moshe Safdie
Self
Robert A.M. Stern
Self
Alexandra Tyng
Self
Production
Producer
Susan Rose Behr
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