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[An] affecting and informative memoir. -Alex Beam, Wall Street Journal Our Days Are Like Full Years is not a bitter or angry book. It is a memoir of [Kahn and Pattison's] times together, moving and heroic (on her part) as well as troubling. -Rowan Moore, The Guardian Part memoir, part collection of letters, part architecture treatise, and part love story, Harriet Pattison's Our Days Are Like Full Years takes you inside the architect Louis Kahn's mind and, even more, inside his heart. This is the saga of a devil's bargain with a saint, and it is at once poignant and triumphant. Pattison has written a magnificent book, filled with warmth, elegance, insight, and grace. -Paul Goldberger, author of Why Architecture Matters

Part memoir, part collection of letters, part architecture treatise, and part love story, Harriet Pattison's Our Days Are Like Full Years takes you inside the architect Louis Kahn's mind and, even more, inside his heart. This is the saga of a devil's bargain with a saint, and it is at once poignant and triumphant. Pattison has written a magnificent book, filled with warmth, elegance, insight, and grace. -Paul Goldberger, author of Why Architecture Matters

Our Days Are Like Full Years is not a bitter or angry book. It is a memoir of [Kahn and Pattison's] times together, moving and heroic (on her part) as well as troubling. -Rowan Moore, The Observer Part memoir, part collection of letters, part architecture treatise, and part love story, Harriet Pattison's Our Days Are Like Full Years takes you inside the architect Louis Kahn's mind and, even more, inside his heart. This is the saga of a devil's bargain with a saint, and it is at once poignant and triumphant. Pattison has written a magnificent book, filled with warmth, elegance, insight, and grace. -Paul Goldberger, author of Why Architecture Matters

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Harriet Pattison, FASLA, is a distinguished landscape architect. She was Louis Kahn’s romantic partner from 1959 to 1974, and his collaborator on the landscapes of the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, and the F.D.R. Memorial/Four Freedoms Park, New York. She is the mother of their son, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn.

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