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Article: HIS FATHER'S HOUSE IN THE DOCUMENTARY `MY ARCHITECT,' A SON TRIES TO UNDERSTAND THE LEGENDARY LOUIS KAHN THROUGH THE BUILDINGS HE LEFT BEHIND
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- February 8, 2004
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LOUIS KAHN WAS THE GREATEST AMERICAN ARCHITECT OF HIS TIME. THIS
WEEK, AN OSCAR-NOMINATED FILM BY HIS SON NATHANIEL, "MY ARCHITECT: A
Son's Journey," opens in Boston. It's the movie of a son's search for
the father he barely knew. A cliched subject, you might think, but
"My Architect" is a movie without cliches.
In 1974, Louis Kahn was found dead at age 73 on the floor of the
men's room of Pennsylvania Station in New York. He had recently
returned from Bangladesh, where he'd been working on a new national
capital complex. Kahn had crossed out the address on his passport. As
a result, his body remained unclaimed in a morgue for three days.
Why did Kahn cross out his address? No one knows for ...