My Architect: A Son's Journey Page #4

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You're raising hell with the Inquirer?

- Why are you doing that?

- To find you, sir.

Oh, well, I'm glad you did find me.

Look, don't forget Lou

Kahn's my first cousin.

Lou Kahn is your first cousin?

And my parents was his godparents.

Wow, I didn't know that.

Well, I knew Lou very well.

With all due respect, I

hear Lou fooled around.

Well,

you know...

Anyway, I'm here, so

that's a good thing.

What would you do with

the film once you...

Oh, it'll be on... it'll

be on TV, you know.

- Wow.

- Yeah, so...

I'd like to come and interview you.

- I'm photogenic.

- Oh, you're photogenic, okay.

Let's see if anybody's home.

Just calling for you.

Oh, that was kind of you.

No camera, please.

- No camera?

- No camera.

No, I understand. I

know you were skeptical,

so I wanted to show you

my birth certificate,

which, um,

you know...

My bris certificate?

I don't have that.

What do they do?

That's okay, I understand.

Not that I'm proud of

being... but I'm trying...

'74, right, and you...

the two of you were there

at his funeral, right?

But people in the family

really didn't know that he was

an internationally known

architect, did they?

Does that mean no money to

show for it, you mean, or what?

Why did they think

that he traveled the world

and he didn't amount to anything?

I grew up not knowing

anything about Lou's family

and the Jewish half of my background.

I'd hoped so much that

Kramer would fill in

that part of the story for

me, but I was disappointed.

In this society, how you made it

is now like the dust has cleared.

Something else was happening, though.

Details about my father

were coming back to me:

his voice, the rough feel of his scars.

That was one of my favorite stories.

I made him tell it to me over and over.

He was three years old back in Estonia.

There were coals glowing in a stove.

He was captivated by the light.

He took the coals out

and put them in his apron.

It caught fire, and the

flames seared his face

and the backs of his hands.

His father thought it

would be better if he died,

but his mother said he would grow up

to be a great man because of it.

I first met your

father... some AIA affairs.

And I sat right next to Lou.

And I praised him, on

the Richards Laboratory.

I thought that was really a

marvelous group of buildings.

And it was then that

he told me, "You know,

"go to Scotland."

- Really?

- Know that?

No.

The Scottish castle

gave him the inspiration.

- For Richards?

- Yes.

And I said, "That group of buildings

are really one of your best."

And he said, "Well, the

best is yet to come."

That was Salk.

So then he told me about

his relationship with Salk.

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