My Architect: A Son's Journey

My Architect: A Son's Journey

A man. His buildings. His secret lives.

20031h 56m6.8Documentary

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.

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Cast

Edmund Bacon

Self

Edwina Pattison Daniels

Aunt Eddie

Balkrishna Doshi

Self

Frank Gehry

Self

Philip Johnson

Philip Johnson

Self

Louis Kahn

Self (archive footage)

Nathaniel Kahn

Nathaniel Kahn

Self

Sue Ann Kahn

Self