campuses. Author Tafel also wrote books, including Apprentice to Genius: Years with Frank Lloyd Wright (1979) and About Wright: An Album of Recollections by Those Who Knew Frank Lloyd Wright (1993), which he also edited, as well as producing The Frank Lloyd Wright Way, a film which won first prize at the 1995 Houston International Film Festival. Philanthropy In 2006, Tafel gave $3.2 million to Cornell University's Department of Architecture. to endow the Edgar A. Tafel Professorship in Architecture and the Tafel Architecture Lecture Series. Death and legacy Tafel died at the age of 98 in New York City on January 18, 2011. He was the last member of the original Taliesin Fellows to die. Tafel had been married twice, ending respectively in divorce and the death of his second wife in 1951. He had no children. Following his death, his architectural archive was donated to the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library of Columbia University in New York City. His collection includes information on Frank Lloyd Wright, as well as drawings and other items related to Tafel's own architectural practice. Awards and honors Doctor of Fine Arts, Honoris Causa from SUNY Geneseo, 2001 Edgar Tafel Distinguished Chair in the School of Architecture at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign References Notes External links Edgar Tafel architectural records and papers, 1919-2005 held in the Department of Drawings & Archives Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library 1912 births 2011 deaths 20th-century American architects American people of Russian-Jewish descent Architects from New York City New York University alumni Walden School (New York City) alumni