Yesterday, I went to a screening of one of my all time favorite films: My Architect
I’ve seen it many times, but this was special. It’s newly remastered, and it was screened in the lecture hall of the Yale Center for British Art, which itself was just renovated and reopened a couple weeks ago. It was followed up by Q&A with director Nathaniel Kahn and host for Yale, professor Thomas Allen Harris.
My personal connections are many fold: My father died before I was born, so I relate to his quest. My father was friends with his while teaching architecture at Yale. Ann Tyng was a classmate of my mother’s and a teacher of mine at Penn (leading to this post on platonic solids). I even had a class with Ed Bacon who makes an appearance.
It’s obviously a film about Lou Kahn and Nathanial visits many of his best buildings, but that’s not what this film is really about. It’s about people and relationships. A must see even for non-architects.
From the evening:
