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By Joanne Hilty

Special to the Rappahannock News

Louis Kahn, who died in 1974, is considered to be among the most important and visionary architects of the 20th century. Kahn, an immigrant Jew who overcame poverty and the effects of a devastating childhood accident, created a handful of intensely powerful and spiritual buildings.

"My Architect,* an Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary Feature, id a brilliant film portrait by his son, Nathaniel Kahn.

The Rappahannock Association for the Arts and Community is showing "My Architect," Friday, Aug. 6 at the Theatre in Little Washington at 8 p.m.

Along with his celebrated artistic legacy, Kahn also left behind a personal life of secrets and broken promises. His dramatic death— alone, bankrupt and unidentified in

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