Nathaniel Kahn

grew up in Philadelphia and attended Yale University on a scholarship, where he was awarded the Gordon Prize for his work as theater director. In 1989, Kahn wrote and directed a play, Owl’s Breath, which was presented off-Broadway. In 1992, he co-wrote The Room, a short dramatic film about a boy whose room falls out of a building. The Room screened at the Sundance Film Festival and won an award at the Cannes Film Festival.
An avid environmentalist, Kahn also spent several years collaborating with Miranda Productions on a number of environmentally themed documentaries including, My Father’s Garden, which was featured at the Sundance Film Festival and was broadcasted by the Sundance Channel, An Wilderness: The last stand, which broadcast by PBS and was nominated for a regional Emmy Award. After several years of fund-raising, he was able to embark on the making of My Architect, his first feature-length film.

Robert McCarter

is a practicing architect, professor of architecture, and author. From 1991-present he has been Professor of Architecture, and from 1991 to 2001 he was Director of the School of Architecture, both at the University of Florida; from 1986 to 1991 he was Associate Professor, Assistant Dean (with Bernard Tschumi), and Assistant Chair (with Kenneth Frampton), at the Graduate School of Architecture, Columbia University, New York. McCarter has been a licensed architect since 1982, and since 1991 is President of D-Mc2 Architecture, P. A., in Tioga, Florida.
McCarter is the author of Louis I. Kahn (Phaidon Press, London, 2005); several books about F.L.Wright, eg: On and By Frank Lloyd Wright: A Primer of Architectural Principles (Phaidon Press, London, 2005); Frank Lloyd Wright: Critical Lives (Reaktion Books, London, 2006), Frank Lloyd Wright (Phaidon Press, London, 1997) etc.
He is currently working on books on Alvar Aalto; Steven Holl; Toshiko Mori; Aldo van Eyck; Carlo Scarpa; Brad Cloepfil/Allied Works; the Alfonso Architects; a study of the relationship between Modern painting and Modern architecture from 1900 to today; and a general Primer on Architecture. He edited and contributed several essays and also articles and chapters to numerous professional and scholarly journals and publications eg: The Encyclopedia of 20th Century Architecture; 50 Key Thinkers on the Environment; Ptah: Architecture Design Art; Architektur & Bauforum; The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and many more.
Among his awards, two books by McCarter, Louis I. Kahn and On and By Frank Lloyd Wright, are finalists for the inaugural Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) International Book Awards, 2006.

Anne Tyng

— architect, Louis Kahn´s associate

Thomas Leslie

AIA, is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Iowa State University. He received his B.S.A.S with High Honors from the University of Illinois, and his M. Arch. from Columbia University. For seven years he practiced with the office of Norman Foster and Partners, London, working on the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha, Nebraska, the Al Faisliah Center in Riyadh, and the Center for Clinical Sciences Research at Stanford University, where he was Foster’s site architect.
In 2000 he accepted a teaching appointment at Iowa State, where he teaches building design, technology, and history. The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture has recognized him with their annual New Faculty and Creative Achievement Awards. He is the author of Louis I. Kahn: Building Art, Building Science, published by George Braziller in 2005, which was the result of grants from the Graham Foundation and Iowa State’s Center for Excellence in the Arts and Humanities. Leslie has also published numerous articles on the role of technology in architectural history, covering topics ranging from the role of plate glass in Chicago architecture of the 1890s to the transformation of airline terminals in the Jumbo Jet era.

Vilen Künnapu,

architect (belongs to the Union of Estonian Architects) and artist, born 1948, graduated from the Estonian Academy of Arts in 1971, currently lecturer in architecture at the Tallinn University of Technology and professor of fine art at the University of Tartu. He is one of the architects and owners of the architecture firm Künnapu and Padrik. Together with Ain Padrik he has won prizes at numerous international architecture competitions and has designed many buildings, which have become important in the architectural landscape of Estonia. Many of his articles have been published in both the Estonian and international media.
Architectural competitions: West Coast Gateway, Los Angeles, 1988 (2nd Prize), Arctic Centre in Rovaniemi, 1984
Built projects: Estonian Methodist Church 1994, Detail planning of Viru Square, 1998, Business Building in Pärnu Road 105, 1998, Evea Bank Building 1998, Palm House of Tallinn Botanical Garden, 1999, Radisson SAS Hotel, 1999, Viru Centre in Tallinn 2004 etc
Books: Across the Red River, 2001, Selected works: Künnapu&Padrik, 1999