My Architect: A Son's Journey

1h 56m
Documentary
6.7

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.

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
Anne Tyng
Self
Shamsul Wares
Self

Crew

Nathaniel Kahn
Director, Writer
Sabine Krayenbühl
Editor
Robert Richman
Director of Photography
Susan Rose Behr
Producer

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