darlavillani: Photo: Dante & Darla Villani Louis Kahn, A Son’s Epic Search and YOUR Fa

darlavillani: Photo: Dante & Darla Villani Louis Kahn, A Son’s Epic Search and YOUR Father’s name { here }.Have you ever visited the Four Freedoms Park on Roosevelt Island, NYC? I did a few weeks ago, for the very first time. I had no idea what to expect and I’d never thought it would lead me into such a deep and beautiful story.  Architect Louis I. Kahn conceived the Four Freedoms Park forty years ago.  It’s his only work in New York City, celebrating the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt and his vision of a world founded on freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. This declaration was originally pronounced in President Roosevelt’s famous January 6, 1941 State of the Union speech. The space is pristine, bucolic and metaphysical all at once. Kahn has designed beyond sculpture and beyond architecture. This is a spiritual space, it is harmonic. It is uplifting, it holds you up. Kahn’s reach to that higher ground is explicit and invisible. It is a deep search. Photo: Alexisrael (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons My Architect is a documentary made by Kahn’s son Nathaniel.  Twenty five years after his father’s death, Nathaniel embarks on a global trek to five of his father’s architectural creations. His mission - to attain a deeper understanding of him as a man and as a father.  His encounter with the Jativo Sangsad Bhaban (The National Assembly Building of Bangladesh) is nothing less than astonishing. This building, one of the largest legislative complexes in the world was conceived in 1959 and completed in 1983, and was built mostly by hand. It is a mind bending feat of conception, execution and some divine alignment of the cosmos. Photo: Nathanial Kahn To witness Nathaniel’s reunion with his father in this form - the conference with the massive exterior and the tender speed and movement of the interior spaces is a powerful and oddly, shared experience. It shakes you. You feel your own ghosts coming over the border. You retrace floor plans, pathways and stairs. Interior maps rise up out of your own personal Atlantis. Maps & Letters In some strange way these buildings are letters strewn all over the world waiting for a son to read them. What a wonder to observe this transmission and communication - Nathaniel and Louis’s own language. What a beautiful communion of space, a reunion of physical structure, a brilliant reconstruction of home in the deepest sense.  Where do you find your Father?  I rediscover my father, Dante whenever I’m pressing myself into a new technique, system or learning curve – there is a thread of him inside the process of repetition, inside a deep hyper focus, a fragile disassociation. It’s in the few seconds that follow that rigor that I sense him - in that space of stillness. Meet Dante here. Have a deeper look- watch these: Nathanial Kahn encounters the Jativo Sangsad Bhaban / 10 minMy Architect - full documentary on Vimeo / 116 min  Did something strike a chord? Get in on my monthly newsletter. -- source link

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