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Article: Portrait of an architect: in a subtle and sensitive documentary, Louis Kahn's son chronicles his search for the architect-father he never really knew.(Film)
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- Art in America
- Article date:
- May 1, 2004
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Penelope was not alone in her longing for Odysseus. Their son, Telemachus, embarked on his own journey to find his long-absent father, establishing one of literature's oldest themes, the son's search for Dad.
In one of the most poignant moments of many in My Architect: A Son's Journey, Nathaniel Kahn tells how he and his mother, Harriet Pattison, waited "all those summers" for his father, Louis Kahn, the great American architect, to come home to them in Maine--"and waited and waited." But the father, busy with his international practice and married still to his wife of many decades, never appeared there. In 1974, he died suddenly, at age 73, alone in New York's ...