
My Architect
2003 · Movie · 116 min · ★ 6.8 · 87% critics
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.
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Details
- Original title
- My Architect: A Son's Journey
- Years
- 2003
- Release date
- 2003-11-12
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Critic score
- 87/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.8/10 (32 votes)
Themes
- architect
- modern architecture
- life and career
- testimony
- biographical documentary
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Documentary Feature Film · 2004 · nominated
Cast & crew
- EB
Edmund Bacon
as Self
- ED
Edwina Pattison Daniels
as Aunt Eddie
- BD
Balkrishna Doshi
as Self
- FG
Frank Gehry
as Self

Philip Johnson
as Self
- LK
Louis Kahn
as Self (archive footage)

Nathaniel Kahn
as Self
- SK
Sue Ann Kahn
as Self
- HK
Haym Richard Katz
as Richard Katz
- HP
Harriet Pattison
as Self
Directed by Nathaniel Kahn