Oct 19, 2015
Nathanial Kahn is a director and
producer. He is also the son of architect Louis
Kahn, one of the most influential architects of the 20th
century. In 2003, he produced the Oscar-nominated film
My Architect about the life and work of his dad,
interviewing people who knew Kahn including Frank Gehry,
Philip Johnson, and I.M. Pei. Kahn created modern
buildings with the feel and presence of ancient ruins using
concrete. His brilliant projects include the Four Freedoms
Park, the Phillips Exeter Library, the Salk Institute, and his most
famous work, the National Assembly building in Bangladesh.
Alexandra Lange is the architecture critic for
Curbed and a columnist at Dezeen. She is a rising authority
and a prolific writer for print and digital publications like
Architect, Domus, Dwell, Metropolis, New York Magazine, and the New
York Times. Previously a Loeb fellow at the Harvard Graduate
School of Design, she taught architecture criticism at New York
University and is a leader in the new breed of digital curators,
people who curate visually interesting exhibits you see on your
screen and not inside a brick and mortar gallery or museum. She is
the author of Writing About Architecture: Mastering the
Language of Buildings and Cities.