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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Reflection on Architect Movie

Ya ya ya...This better be 500 words. Its not like we had other work and deadlines or stuff due for exhibition, or deadlines for the non profit organizations that we were dilligently working on. No, I forget, that we are just stupid kids sitting here that have to write this pointless reflection. We have to write this pointless 500 word reflection on a movie we can barley hear instead of actually getting work done. I have WORK THAT HAS TO GET DONE AND THIS IS TAKING AWAY FROM MY TIME.
Ok so, this architects son is in a quest to find out about his dad and in the process comes to find out about that his dad had three familys all within blocks of each other. weird. He had two sisters all older then him. His father had him when he was 61 years old.
His fathers name was Lou , he was Irish, German and Jewish, evidently so is his son. This movie is all about architecture where his son interviews other architects even though his father died 25 years earlier in Philidelphia. The son went to his father's architecture and some are very bland. Very mathamadcal and straight, semitrical, no pizazz or fun, nothing for it to get noticed, just the plain, brick, wood, or cement buildings occassionally with a waterfall. Yea...
Lou, the architect, this guys dad, was said to be very ambitious, secretive, perfectionalist etc etc. The architects that this guy is interviewing, make everyone in the room feel awkward, they are emabarrassed as well because they barley know him. It was said that his dad would phone his fellow architects in projects and asks them to make them for him at the last minute. Then he is nasty, and calls them up and says the model is nasty. (for lack of cursewords) Um, then we see the son rollerblading on his dad's architecture set to music...ok then...Louis I. Kahn, is the architecture he was found dead found face down in a restroom in manhatten at Grand Central Station. Suprisingly, it looks very familar to Union Station in Los Angeles, CA. Noblody knows exactly how he died, they are trying to identify him, and his son meets someone at the station to try and findout more, he finds out that his dad died from a heart attack...very sad.

Apparently Lou was born on an island, we can't really hear this movie, but it was North Philidelphia, the whole family lived on a top floor of a tenant. They were poor. He won a scholarship from Univirsity of Penselvania, he married Esther, sleek steel arhitecture, in 1947 he started his own office, we only see a few sketcheds, in 1941 he was invited somewhere important, though, I can't really hear because people won't stop talking. But, it involved architectiure and impacted his life. Then he worked in his office around steel.
We can't hear any of this movie and it pisses me off. Please give us a summary when you get back so we can understand this movie, because this is inadequete on its own.

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