Art on Film Database
Title: LOUIS I. KAHN A DACCA
- Data
- 52 min. col. 35mm 1993 France French
- Producing Agency
- Films A'Prim
- Museum Prod'n
- No
- Director
- Daniel Darbois
- Writer
- Charlotte Pricoupenko
- Cameraperson
- Daniel Darbois
- Editor
- Anne de Montangon
- Narrator
- Olivier Descamps
- Narrator
- Charlotte Pricoupenko
- Music composer
- Gerard Massias
- Intl. Source
- Films A'Prim, 52, avenue Duquesne, Paris, 75007 France. Phone:
33.1.47.83.54.90. Fax: 33.1.44.49.04.42.
- Availability
- Limited
- Synopsis
- Profiles American architect Louis Isadore Kahn (1901-1974),
whose buildings combine the changing elements of water and
light with durable materials such as concrete, marble, and
brick. Recounts his early career in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, and then as a teacher at Yale University in New
Haven, Connecticut. Looks at the large Sher-E Bangla Nadar
complex which he designed in 1962, and is now the Bangladesh
Parliament in Dacca.
- Genre
- Profile
- Artist on Camera
- Unknown
- Suggested Use
- General Information
- Subject Heading
- Architecture -- Modernist -- North America -- United States;
Asia -- Bangladesh -- Dacca -- 20C
- Personal Name
- Kahn, Louis Isadore (1901-1974), American architect
- Comments
- The film is really about the history, life, and architecture of
Dacca, with Lewis Kahn's Bangladesh Parliament building as a
focal point. Very tacky and didactic, but useful as background
and as an introduction to the history and politics of
Bangladesh. (Staff)