Architect Louis Kahn "Gave Us Our Democracy"

If you're an architect enthusiast who also enjoys biography, the DVD of the documentary "My Architect, a Son's Journey" is well worth time and attention. 


http://www.myarchitectfilm.com/


Louis Kahn's master work was the National Assembly Building in Dacca, Bangladesh. It is a great example of how a building can provide an environment which informs the senses and inspires the human spirit.

Though in many ways a very modern building, it summoned such an ancient and traditional sense of architecture that it was spared by bomber pilots during war.


http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/National_Assembly_in_Dacc.html 


The DVD is worth watching, alone, for the saga of the son discovering his father, and worth watching, alone, for the saga of the father, the architect, discovering his true calling within his already true calling as an architect. There is also great footage around the "gentleman's agreement" among architects in Philadelphia not to exceed a certain height of buildings, and how that agreement was broken. This segment includes the late great Philadelphia architect, Edmund Bacon.


http://designmuseum.org/design/louis-kahn