A reception and private screening of the Academy Award®-nominated film My Architect will be held June 10, opening night of the AIA national convention, 7-10:30 p.m. at the beautifully renovated Auditorium Theatre in downtown Chicago. Following the film, AIA members will be treated to an extended question-and-answer session with the film’s director, Nathaniel Kahn.

My Architect tells “the tale of love and art, betrayal and forgiveness” through which filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn undertakes a five-year, worldwide exploration to understand his long-dead father, Louis Kahn. One of the most influential architects of the second half of the 20th century, Louis Kahn’s masterworks include the Kimball Art Museum, Yale Center for British Art, Exeter Library, Indian Institute of Management, and the Capital Complex at Dhaka, Bangladesh. The legendary AIA Gold Medalist, creator of intensely powerful and spiritual buildings, had a secretive personal life that ended abruptly in 1974.

In addition to its Academy Award-nomination, My Architect received a Best Documentary nomination at the IFP Independent Spirit Awards, and Nathaniel Kahn received the Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary from the Director’s Guild of America. (For more information about the film, visit www.myarchitectfilm.com; click here for AIArchitect’s review.)

Details, details
This special showing of My Architect will take place at the Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University, 50 East Congress Parkway (between Wabash and S. Michigan Streets). Built in 1889, the first major commission by Louis Sullivan and Dankmar Adler, the theater’s design integrity and perfect acoustics are internationally recognized, and were restored first in 1967 by Harry Weese Associates and more recently by Daniel P. Coffey and Associates Ltd.

The reception will be held at 7 p.m. in the theater lobby. The film begins at 8 p.m. and runs two hours, with the question-and-answer session with Nathaniel Kahn immediately following. Tickets are $25 (1-4 tickets per person), and participation is limited to 2,000 participants.

You can order tickets when you register (click here) for the convention online. Look under “Special Events” for instructions on how to order tickets.

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