Our Days Are Like Full Years

Our Days Are Like Full Years, A Memoir with Letters from Louis Kahn, published by Yale University Press, recounts the love affair of Harriet Pattison and the world renown architect.

“An artist never sets out to solve problem for which there is a known solution and a known appearance or feeling. He draws from the circumstances and need the essence of new clusters of affinities which he models into a new image.” - Louis Kahn

“There is a Chinese cinnabar box on a bookshelf by my bed. It is filled with letters from the architect Louis Kahn, who died in 1974. Lou - as he was called by nearly everyone - was my teacher, my inspiration, my companion, and the love of my life.”

A box of letters, replete with sketches and tales of far off adventures, are revealed one-by-one with a narrative and accompanying image, casting an insightful look into a vast and complicated life. So much adoration, so much thinking, so much dreaming, so many frustrations, so many lessons.