Stanley Tigerman
| Stanley Tigerman | |
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Stanley Tigerman in 2007
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September 20, 1930 Chicago, Illinois |
| Nationality | United States |
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| Occupation | architect |
| Spouse(s) | Margaret McCurry |
| Children | two |
Stanley Tigerman (born September 20, 1930) is an American architect, theorist and designer.
Tigerman was born to a Jewish family, the only child of a day laborer father and a mother who worked as a typist for the federal government. he grew up in his paternal grandparents' boardinghouse in Edgewater, Chicago. He won the 'beautiful baby' contest at the world's fair in 1933 and attended Senn High School where he studied jazz. He studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology but flunked out after one year but was able to get a job as an apprentice for Chicago architect George Fred Keck, a friend of the dean of MIT. After a year, he left to start his own practice which failed and he then joined the U.S. Navy. After which he returned to Chicago and worked for two years for A.J. Del Bianco doing suburban architecture; then with Milton Schwartz on the Executive House; and then as junior designer for Skidmore Owings & Merrill on the Air Force Academy. He graduated from the Yale School of Architecture in 1961. Since 1964 he has been the Principal of Stanley Tigerman and Associates Ltd. (now Tigerman McCurry Architects), in Chicago. He has also taught at several universities in the United States. A collection of his papers is held by the Ryerson & Burnham Libraries in the Art Institute of Chicago.
During his early career, Tigerman borrowed extensively from an eclectic blend of styles. In 1976 he was the central figure of the Chicago Seven, a group which emerged in opposition to the doctrinal application of modernism, as represented particularly in Chicago by the followers of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
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