Harvard professor of Art and Architecture Dr. Neil Levine, a lecturer in the series “The Image of Water in the Work of Frank Lloyd Wright,” emphasizes the immensity of Wright’s accomplishments—which in his opinion are being undermined by the current developments underway for the Wright-designed Buffalo Filling Station. Wright’s final plans for the Station were never finished, and therefore it is up to whoever is leading the job production (Wright scholar and one-time apprentice Anthony Putnam) to finalize the design in a way that Wright would approve of. The Station is to be built as a part of the Pierce-Arrow Transportation Museum, only a few blocks away from the originally intended site at Michigan and Cherry St. Considering Levin’s take on maintaining the integrity of Wright’s work, his collaboration with the Graycliff Conservancy, Inc. (which specializes in such) and his belief that the designs should come wholly from Wright and also be built by him, the project currently in the works will be an interesting topic for him to address. Dr. Levine is a definitive Frank Lloyd Wright expert, author of the seminal volume The Architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright (Princeton University Press), which focuses not only on the work of Wright as an architect and a writer but also on his fascinating and tragic life.

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