Renowned architect Edgar Tafel receives honorary degree at Geneseo

Real Estate Weekly, May 9, 2001

Internationally acclaimed architect Edgar Tafel, the unofficial guardian of the Frank Lloyd Wright School, will receive an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the State University of New York at Geneseo during the university's May 19, 2001 commencement ceremony.

Tafel is being honored by the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York and SUNY Geneseo for his distinguished career as an architect, author and lecturer. He contributed to the design of several SUNY campuses, including the 1964 Master Plan for SUNY Geneseo and its design gem, the Broadie Fine Arts Building, in 1969. Not content with simply designing the Broadie Fine Arts Building, Tafel also secured the donation of ten French modern paintings for the building's permanent collection and donated an original Peacock Chair designed by architectural icon Frank Lloyd Wright, his teacher during his 1932 to 1941 Taliesin Fellowship apprenticeship.

In addition to his prolific and successful career in architecture, Tafel is an author and lecturer on Frank Lloyd Wright. He has written numerous articles and two books, as well as produced a film on his late mentor.