A great architect, whose buildings were all over the world, crossed out the part of his passport that showed his identity, and finally passed away alone in the station reception room because of a heart attack.
He is an illegitimate child, and he has two half-sisters, one with the same fate as him.
He was moved by architecture, moved by life, and lived sensibly and frankly. Before he left, he had countless unfinished construction projects for various reasons, and he was considered to be a beautiful reputation behind a lot of debts.
His small stature left a long shadow in heaven, this is Louis Kahn.
Understanding Kahn's architecture begins with the Bengali House, a building complex surrounded by water with a quiet temperament, formed by the interlacing and connecting of countless beautifully proportioned geometries. In the movie, Kahn's son likes to slowly pan the camera lens to the dome of each of his father's buildings. Under the projected light, the buildings begin to talk to God, and they prick up their ears to listen. The silence seems to echo with oracles.
Looking for his father may be the theme of many movies, but this son is looking for his father who died 25 years ago. What answer does he want? He found a lot of people, like the clues of a detective novel, following the traces left by his father in the world, looking for affirmation in the world.
Undoubtedly, Kahn's architecture still looks so wonderful now, just as the son is visiting IM Pei (in the film, the son visits many master architects who are still alive, Philip Johnson, IM Pei, Frank Gehry, James Stern...) when he left him a sentence: the life of a building is long, and it may not be affirmed in the years after it is built, and as time goes by, even if its surface erodes and peels off, the designer's thinking But at this time forever. This kind of emotion does not need words. When the picture is downgraded, when the building stands quietly and motionless in the changing world of light and shadow, it is like a lonely and devout prayer in the universe, transcending time and space, shining brightly.
I believe that every excellent architect is full of love for life, otherwise they would not be able to achieve the most magnificent design in the world, and this kind of love is the reflection of self-reflection and the broadness of others.
When it comes to life, I can't avoid the pair of sincere eyes in front of the camera. They either shed tears after knowing it, or they smile slightly when they talk about it. It is the beauty brought to them by this architect that makes them There was a charming brilliance in his eyes.
The son's journey continued, and he was more confused as he learned more from the constant visits, and even later he asked his mother if she was sure that her father loved them and wanted to live with them? The mother is firm, the son is still skeptical before the last leg of the trip.
Until he flew to India to Bangladesh, and visited the most indelible stroke left by his father, standing in front of the square of the Bangladesh Council building, watching the bustling foreign people, listening to their stories and admiration, their admiration and love The love is beyond words. When he interviewed his last interviewee, a Bangladeshi architect, in the aisles of the Capitol, he said he reserved the last ten minutes of the film for the building. The designer was amazed: ten minutes? ! He felt that ten minutes was too short for a building that had been poured into his father's last efforts and even unfinished at the time of his death. Talking and talking, the tears in his eyes finally burst, the designer solved his son's question: maybe your father didn't care enough about his family and his lover, but he devoted all his love to you. in these buildings.
Architecture is moving because of life, and life is shining because of architecture.
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