Summary Of Nathaniel Khan's Film My Architect

Nathaniel Khan’s documentary My Architect - a film about discovering who his father, Louis Khan, was as an individual - shined a lit into his father’s mysterious personal world. Throughout his journey we learn about his father’s upbringing and crucial moments of his adult life as well as the characteristics that defined him. From watching Nathaniel’s documentary, I was able to contrast, Louis Khan from I. M. Pei as an architect.; Louis’s designs for his buildings were dissimilar, he did not have the patience that Pei has and, most significantly, he was not as fortunate. During the duration of the film, we are shown the several buildings that Louis designed and can see how his architecture work differs from work like Pei’s. Unlike Pei’s structures which presents a heavy use of windows to get natural lighting, Louis designs his buildings to be more sealed, allowing only certain parts to be either left open or filled with glass. Another attribute we can see that differentiates their work entirely from one another is the attitude their buildings present. In the last film we watched, I. M. Pei informs us that he creates his buildings to express simplicity. However, in this documentary, nothing about Louis’s buildings express easiness. All his
It was often mentioned through most of the documentary that Khan struggled to keep clients for most of his career. This was often caused by his actions towards clients that had a difficulty seeing his creative point of way. In addition, Pei tells us that if he had a client that did not agree with his decision, he would be patient and be persistent. He then states that Louis, on the other hand, would push his ideas right through his clients. The impatient manner that Louis had when handling his disapproving clients, which resulted in many of his projects being left unfinished, shows a major difference between the two