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My architect

Introduction

This is a film about the quest for a son to understand about his father who had died. The son is Nathaniel Kahn while the father was Louis Kahn. In this film the artist is Louis Kahn who was one of the prominent American architect in his own time. He had on official wife and two unofficial wives according to (Holden, 2003). The film was produced in 2003.

Part one

The artist, Louis Kahn, usually visited all his three wives in ‘cloak and dagger’ operation (Holden, 2003). This mean he was not able to share about himself with his family. I therefore see this as preservation of his own confidentiality of personal life. This made everyone, his wives, children and also the entire audience, not to understand exactly about social life of Louis Kahn. I therefore think that Louis Kahn made technical appearance to his families and perhaps the entire world just as a formality but this never meant to affect his personal life and his work. I belief that the company we have with our families and the entire environment have a vital impact in building our lives. It is in my conclusion therefore that the Louis Kahn sees the world as having no impact in his life but then he just appreciate it. In the end, when Louis Kahn collapses and dies in the train station, he is left unidentified. Due to the fact that the world does not impact on his life, so does the world not identify his body after he dies.

Louis Kahn had one official wife and two unofficial wife. According to (Portilla, 2012), he bore children to these wives. He kept this marriage situation as deep secret such that many of his friends never had a clue about. Not only did he remained married to his first wife but also he got engaged with activities of his entire two wives.

He also died bankrupt. I tend to see this aspect as something that he kept his confidentiality and secrecy in their ultimate best position. This is because these wives never knew about themselves and so there was no communication that they would undertake pertaining their share husband. Therefore I think his wives failed to understand how he suffered and so his death. This therefore means that the artist never wanted to get committed into one wife as he could expose all his secrets to her and in any case of divorce this would expose his entire life.

Part two

Kahn carefully articulates paintings, sculptures, drawing, and manuscripts in his designs in order to bring out the Elizabethan period (Hart, 2015).This then gives the impression of Kahn architectural outputs as structures that are in harmony with the culture of the prevailing neighborhood. This is much particularly seen in the Yale Centre for British Art.

The buildings that Kahn designed were powerful and spiritual. This were through expertise geometry of bricks, concrete and glasses. This particular design is with the Richard’s Medical Research Laboratories in Philadelphia (Lowery, 2015). These designs shape the life of people as it gives an exciting and lively feeling.

Conclusion

The architecture therefore is an art coming up of buildings and approaches that communicate meaningful sense to the general people. It can also be used to pass meaningful information pertaining our historical backgrounds, culture scape and heritage.

Work Cited

Hart, I. (2015). History Painting and Its Critics, ca. 1870–1910. Retrieved January 27th, 2016, from 19thc-artworldwide.org: http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/summer15/hart-on-history-painting-and-its-critics-ca-1870-1910 Holden, S. (2003, March 29th). My Architect (2003) FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW; Son of a Celebrated Father Traces His Elusive Past. Retrieved January 27th, 2016, from nytimes.com: http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9C06E5D71639F93AA15750C0A9659C8B63 Lowery, A. (2015). Louis Kahn and Midcentury Modern Philadelphia. Retrieved January 27th, 2016, from Pennsylvania Heritage: http://www.phmc.state.pa.us/portal/communities/pa-heritage/louis-kahn-midcentury-modern-philadelphia.html Portilla, D. (2012, June 4th). Films & Architecture: "My Architect". Retrieved January 27th, 2016, from archdaily.com: http://www.archdaily.com/240582/films-architecture-my-architect