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Louis Kahn Essay
Louis Kahn Essay
Louis Kahn Essay
Pennsylvania Station alone, unacknowledged and in full debt. His life and
especially to his illegitimate son, Nathaniel, who is also the film maker.
Nathaniel tried to put the pieces of the puzzle to find out what kind of
person and architect his father was whom he barely knew. Being unable to
see his father urged him to make this film. Nathaniel met his father’s
contemporaries, Frank Gehry, Philip Johnson and I.M. Pei, as well as his
father’s other family affairs. By the time he had interviewed these people,
he came to know and understand what kind of architect, friend, lover, family
and dad he was, far from what he had known from the start.
covered past of his father, he even tried to visit most of his father’s
brilliantly designed and engineered buildings that have a tough beauty and
deep spirit. Tracing his father’s confounding life made him acknowledge
and see his father’s works that he had never seen before in his entire life.
Among Louis Kahn’s buildings were some of the most important and
influential in twentieth century. These are the Yale University Art Gallery,
Salk Institute in La Jolla, the Bath House he designed together with his
other woman, Anne Tyng the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, the Hurva
designed for his friend, the Fisher House he made for his daughter Sue
Ann Kahn, the Phillips Exeter Library, the Indian Institute of Management,
monumental and monolithic, heavy buildings that neither hide their weight
Nathaniel learned a great story from his father’s buildings and that
story clearly explains the quote, if you’ll go silent, you’ll hear it. Nathaniel
saw the purity and passion in his father’s works which was undoubtedly
seen in each of its facade and interior, defining a great art with the
combination of classical forms with modern styles that sit in harmony with
their elements and settings using bricks, concrete, water and most
importantly light.
behind in Nathaniel’s mind. In the end of the film, the son realizes that he is
like his famous father, a genius who also had his own struggles with life
and a failure who stood up for his dreams. He travelled nomadically around
the world on the surface working on numerous projects, without letting his
families know where he was. The son begun to discover the nature of
artistic success by his father, that it's far better to create a handful of great
works than a numerous of ordinary ones just for profits. He had found out
that his father wasn’t merely that bastard guy who left him and his mom
alone but a man of dreams and recognition who chose a life he wanted and