Paul Laffoley (August 14, 1935 – November 16, 2015) was an American visionary artist and architect from Boston, Massachusetts. Biography Paul Laffoley was born on August 14, 1935, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to an Irish Catholic family. His father, Paul Laffoley, Sr., was president of the Cambridge Trust Company, and a lawyer who taught classes at Harvard Business School. The elder Laffoley indoctrinated Paul, Jr. with his own religious philosophical beliefs, including aspects of Buddhism and Hinduism and what he called "mind-physics", but opposed Laffoley's pursuit of painting as a career. Laffoley, Sr. also taught Paul that there was "no gravity". Laffoley wrote that his first spoken word was "Constantinople" at the age of six months. He did not speak again until he was four years old. He was diagnosed as having Asperger's Syndrome, scoring both high and low academically. According to Laffoley, he attended the progressive Mary Lee Burbank School in Belmont, Massachusetts, where his talent as a draftsman was ridiculed by his abstract expressionist teachers. After further studies at the Waldorf School, Laffoley would complete undergraduate studies at Brown University, graduating in 1961 with honors in classics, philosophy, and art history. While at Brown in 1961, according to his "Phenomenology of Revelation", Laffoley was given eight electroshock treatments after the termination of "about a year of weekly sessions with a psychiatrist, who had treated [him] for a mild state of catatonia" In 1961, he enrolled at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he studied architecture because it consisted of diagrams that rendered objects in space with accuracy and precision. He also studied sculpture at Harvard's Carpenter Center with Mirko Basaldella whom he cited as an early influence. After one year, he was summarily expelled from GSD by the faculty for being "overly involved in his work". By chance, Laffoley was given an issue of Progressive Architecture by his uncle with Frederick Kiesler on the cover. Laffoley felt Kiesler's work was what he had been searching for and, after writing 17 letters, Laffoley went to New York and successfully entered an apprenticeship with Kiesler While canvasing the art scene in New York, Laffoley met Andy Warhol, who offered him a place to sleep at his 87th Street fire station if he would report on late night television between 1 and 5 am. It was from watching these Indian Head Test Patterns, along with his early exposure to a Hindu