Summaries

Director Nathaniel Kahn searches to understand his father, noted architect Louis Kahn, who died bankrupt and alone in 1974.

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. Nathaniel travels the world visitng his father's buildings and haunts in this film, meeting his father's contemporaries, colleagues, students, wives, and children.—Martin Lewison <[email protected]>

Details

Keywords
  • pregnancy
  • son
  • architect
  • biographical documentary
  • dakar
Genres
  • Biography
  • Documentary
Release date Nov 11, 2003
Countries of origin United States
Official sites Official Site
Language English
Filming locations Mount Desert Island, Maine, USA
Production companies Mediaworks Louis Kahn Project Inc. New Yorker Films

Box office

Gross US & Canada $2762863
Opening weekend US & Canada $37929
Gross worldwide $2932237

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 56m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby SR
Aspect ratio 1.33 : 1

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