The following are excerpts from a conversation between Nathaniel Kahn and
Kazi K. Ashraf. Nathaniel Kahn, an upcoming film-maker from New York, has
just completed and released a film, "My Architect: A Son's Journey," on
his father, the illustrious architect Louis I. Kahn. The film is a
genre-bending masterwork, a spell-binding story that weaves architecture,
the life of a creative personality, and the emotional landscape that
connects people around him. The film is already receiving high acclaim in
such publications as The New York Times, the New Yorker, Variety, etc. The
film critic Leonard Matlin describes the film as "the best this year...
any year." The Parliament Complex project in Dhaka takes a prominent place
in the film for Nathaniel believes that in his search for who his father
really was, which is also centrally what the film is about, he found him
in Dhaka. The conversation was taped in Philadelphia in August 2003
especially in the light of recent and unwarranted building interventions
in the Parliament Complex. Kazi K. Ashraf is an architect from Dhaka who
teaches in the US.
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