Documentary screening by the Liverpool Architectural Society, part of The Architecture of Monumentality series.
FACT Liverpool is screening the documentary Louis Kahn's Tiger City on Tuesday 3 November, presented by the Liverpool Architectural Society as part of their The Architecture of Monumentality series. The film is 113 minutes long, rated PG, and was released in 2019. It's being shown in The Box on the ground floor of FACT, at 88 Wood Street.
Art historian and filmmaker Sundaram Tagore follows the Estonian-born American architect Louis Kahn as he worked from Philadelphia on the design of Bangladesh's parliament building in Dhaka. It's a civic complex shaped by mass, geometry, light and water, conceived to give architectural form to a new nation's democratic identity. Tagore traces Kahn's journey across fourteen countries as he drew together Eastern and Western traditions without imitation, using voids, walls, courtyards, water and carefully controlled daylight to create a place of ceremony, governance and collective meaning.
Kahn rejected historical pastiche and ornament in favour of elemental geometry, massive walls, deep openings, bold asymmetry and the expressive use of natural light, turning Beaux-Arts principles into a modern language of civic gravity. The work is presented as both futuristic and ancient: monumental in scale, elemental in form, and rooted in ideas of permanence, ritual and civic presence. The screening is part of FACT's Community Cinema and is wheelchair accessible.
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The film starts at 18:15, with doors opening at 17:45. Tickets are £12 and booking is required.
