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Personal Greeting Jonathan Lipman, AIA

Jonathan Lipman, AIA & Associates

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Jonathan Lipman, AIA & Associates
Fairfield, IA

Bio

In the first half of my career I was primarily a historical architect with a focus on the work of Frank Lloyd Wright--restoring buildings, writing books and historic structures reports, serving as president of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy, curating exhibits, and designing work inspired by Wright. This direction arose fairly innocently but enthusiastically out of my thesis project at Cornell, which was a proposal to expand Wright's Johnson Wax buildings, which the owners were then contemplating doing. Fortunately, neither my solution nor any other was executed and the buildings remain as Wright designed them. 

A change in direction occurred in 1997 when I began an investigation into the ancient Vedic system of natural-law-based architectural principles revived by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, and known as Maharishi Vastu. I have spent the decades since operating the service in North America that makes these principles available for architects and clients, designing buildings using these principles, and conducting research into their efficacy.

Education

Cornell University