Louis Kahn's Tiger City (2019)

Sundaram Tagore retraces Louis Kahn’s journey to Dhaka to explore the design and civic ideas of Bangladesh’s parliamentary complex.

This documentary follows a fourteen-country journey into Kahn’s architecture and the cultural ideas behind it. It examines how mass, geometry, courtyards, water and daylight combine in a monumental complex designed to express democratic identity, and how Kahn drew together Eastern and Western architectural traditions.

Liverpool Architectural Society introduces the screening as part of The Architecture of Monumentality series. Doors open at 17:45 for an 18:15 start in The Box. FACT lists a 113-minute running time. Community Cinema screenings begin without adverts. Film certificate: PG.