I was invited to a screening of a film, Temptation of Influence, by an architect/filmmaker, Marko Milovanovic, about the ways in which influences in architecture are received/transmitted across generations.

From Louis Kahn to Shane de Blacam, who worked on the completion of the Yale Center for British Art after Kahn’s death in Penn Station on 17 March 1974; from de Blacam to Sheila O’Donnell, who was one of his first year students in his first year of teaching at University College, Dublin in 1976; from Palladio to de Blacam, who stayed in a monastery in Padua to visit all the works of Palladio by bicycle and train; from Kahn and de Blacam to Niall McLaughlin who was required as his first project aged 17 to construct a model of a saltbox house

The way architects look at and remember details of construction and adapt them or reject them through history, learning across time.

Very well worth seeing, but probably only available online, if that.