My Architect

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My Architect
Directed by Nathaniel Kahn
Produced by Nathaniel Kahn
Susan Rose Behr
Written by Nathaniel Kahn
Music by Joseph Vitarelli
Cinematography Robert Richman
Editing by Sabine Krayenbühl
Release date(s) 2003
Running time 110 minutes
Language English
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My Architect: A Son's Journey is a 2003 documentary film about the American architect Louis Kahn. Kahn led an extraordinary career and left three families behind when he died of a heart attack in a Penn Station bathroom.

The film was made by Louis Kahn's illegitimate son Nathaniel Kahn, and features interviews with many giants of modern architecture, including I.M. Pei, Anne Tyng and Philip Johnson. Throughout the film, Kahn visits all of his father's buildings including Yale Center for British Art, Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban and the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad.

My Architect was nominated for the 2003 Academy Award for Documentary Feature.

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