Mr. Lipman is a past president of the Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy and has done historic preservation work on some of the nation’s most distinguished landmarks. Mr. Lipman serves as the chief architect of Maharishi Vedic City, Iowa-the world’s first city built according to Vedic architecture. Mr. Lipman is also the director of Maharishi Global Construction (www.mgc-vastu.org), which collaborated with the Tower Companies on Tower II. Mr. Lipman is widely published and is a frequent speaker at national architectural conferences.