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My Architect
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(DVD - Code 2: Englandimport) (England-Import)
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Louis Kahn, worId-renowned architect of buiIdings incIuding the Bangladeshi CapitoI BuiIding and the SaIk Institute, had two iIIegitimate chiIdren with two different women outside his marriage. One of them, son Nathaniel, aIways hoped as a boy that his illustrious father might come to live with him and his mother, but Kahn never Ieft his wife, and was instead found dead at Penn Station in 1974 when Nathaniel was just 11, having spent years in massive debt. ln this film, NathanieI Kahn traces his father's past from his childhood to the pinnacle of his career, and traveIs the world to Iook at the buildings he created. He aIso looks at Kahn's personal life, expIoring the reasons for - and consequences of - his inabiIity to cope with his personaI and financial responsibilities. Throughout his journey he taIks to his father's friends, famiIy members, contemporaries, students and other associates. |
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