abstract:My Architect: A Son's Journey is a 2003 documentary film about the American architect Louis Kahn (1901-1974), by his son Nathaniel Kahn, detailing the architect's extraordinary career and his familial legacy after his death in 1974.
The Vitra exhibition starts with a detailed biographical display and regular showings of previously unseen film footage shot by Nathaniel Kahn, Louis's son and the director of "My Architect, " the movie about his father.
"My Architect" is reality -- a moving, bittersweet and marvelously touching film about an anti-hero who loved not wisely but too well, and generally made a mess of it, but left a brilliant body of magnificent work and a son who found himself, and his father, through it.