Entries from March 1, 2007 - March 31, 2007
Reading review: House Thinking
Perhaps this book could just as well have been titled House Feeling rather than House Thinking. No, the book’s subject is not what a house thinks or feels but, more specifically, what we feel about our houses. Gallagher’s room-by-room analysis focuses on the ways that our environment influences our behavior and ultimately the way we feel.
Katie Hutchison
DVD review: My Father, the Genius
Directed and Produced by Lucia Small
By contrast with Nathaniel Kahn’s film about his long-deceased father, architectural-great Louis I. Kahn, filmmaker Lucia Small is able to tell the story of her architect father, Glen Howard Small, while he is still alive, able, and all too willing to speak for himself. In fact he has asked Lucia to tell the world about his work. His specific request was that she write his biography, presumably once he’s passed on.
DVD review: My Architect, a Son's Journey
Directed and Produced by Nathaniel Kahn
This documentary featuring and directed by Nathaniel Kahn explores Nathaniel’s journey to learn more about his father, world-renown architect Louis I. Kahn, whom he barely knew. We learn from Nathaniel’s narration that when he was eleven, his father was found dead of a heart attack at the age of seventy-three in the men’s room of New York’s Pennsylvania Station, bankrupt and alone.
