On starchitects, domestic violence, and the Stockholm Syndrome.
Le Corbusier. Frank Lloyd Wright. Louis Kahn. Great architects. Lauded visionaries. Master womanizers and manipulators. The film “My Architect”, a documentary about the life of Louis Kahn, provides a disheartening case-in-point.
The film summarizes Kahn’s life: immigrating to the US from Estonia as a five-year old, he grew up