Nathaniel Kahn (born November 9, 1962, in

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, Pennsylvania) is an American filmmaker. His documentaries ''

My Architect ''My Architect: A Son's Journey'' is a 2003 documentary film about the American architect Louis Kahn (1901–1974), by his son Nathaniel Kahn, detailing the architect's extraordinary career and his familial legacy after his death in 1974. In ...

'' (2003) – about his father, the

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Louis Kahn Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky; – March 17, 1974) was an Estonian-born American architect based in Philadelphia. After working in various capacities for several firms in Philadelphia, he founded his own atelier in 1935. Whi ...

– and '' Two Hands'' (2006) were nominated for

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. His mother is landscape architect

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. In 2018 Kahn directed the

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documentary ''

The Price of Everything ''The Price of Everything'' is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Nathaniel Kahn and produced by Jennifer Blei Stockman, Debi Wisch, Carla Solomon and Katharina Otto-Bernstein for HBO. The film features interviews with people prominentl ...

'' about the exponential sums paid for works on the

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. Kahn is a graduate of

Germantown Friends School Germantown Friends School (GFS) is a coeducational independent PreK–12 school in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States under the supervision of Germantown Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Fri ...

and

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

References

External links

The Beast: Interview with Nathaniel Kahn in Musee
* * 1962 births Living people American documentary filmmakers American documentary film directors American people of Estonian-Jewish descent Artists from Philadelphia Yale University alumni Timothy Dwight College alumni Directors Guild of America Award winners {{US-film-director-1960s-stub