Stanley Tigerman

Stanley Tigerman (2007)

Stanley Tigerman (born September 20, 1930 in Chicago , Illinois , † June 3, 2019 ibid) was an American architect , designer , architectural theorist and essayist .

Life

Tigerman studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Chicago Institute of Design (New Bauhaus) at the University of Illinois and at Yale University . After a few years in the US Navy , he worked as a draftsman and designer in various architectural offices. Since 1964 he had his own office in Chicago called Stanley Tigerman and Associates Ltd. , now Tigerman McCurry Architects . Tigerman taught at several US universities, most notably at the University of Illinois at Chicago . In 1997 he was made an honorary member of the Association of German Architects (BDA) .

Tigerman died in Chicago in June 2019 at the age of 88 of complications from a lung disease .

Archeworks

Tureen, 1990

In 1984 Tigerman founded the Archeworks design school together with designer Eva L. Maddox , in which students work in teams with non-profit partners to develop design solutions for social and ecological purposes. The design school, which is run as a non-profit organization, is financed by foundations, companies, tuition fees and donations.

Work (selection)

Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center (2009)

Tigerman's almost 400 projects encompassing all areas of architecture were carried out in more than 175 cases in different countries:

public buildings:

• Bangladesh : Five Polytechnic Institutes
• Chicago: Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Disabled for Illinois
• Zion , Illinois: Powerhouse Energy Museum
• Skokie , Illinois: Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center

Residential buildings: in the US, Japan, and Germany

• Hot Dog House: Chicago, Illinois, 1975-1976
• Daisy House: Porter , Indiana , 1976-1978
• Richard Marion House: Lisle , Illinois, 1979
• Villa Proeh: Highland Park , Illinois 1979-1981
• Berlin as part of the International Building Exhibition 1984 , Tegeler Hafen development, House 16C, 1985 to 1988
• Apartment block with 16 apartments on 6 floors: Fukuoka , Kyushu , Japan

Showrooms: in the USA, Portugal and Puerto Rico

• Showroom Knoll Int., Houston , Texas , 1983
• Hard Rock Cafe , 1985

In urban planning , for example, he was involved in the Chicago Central Area Plan , the 1992 Chicago World's Fair and the land use plan for high-density, mixed use in the London boroughs of King's Cross and St Pancras .

In the field of design, in part with Margaret McCurry , Tigerman has created, among other things:

• for the manufacturer Formica: Double easy-chair. 1983
• for the manufacturer Alessi : T&CP , five-piece coffee and tea service made of sterling silver , 1983
• for the manufacturer Swid Powell: Sunshine motif, z. B. Plate diameter 30.8 cm, 1985

Publications

• Mildred S. Friedman (Ed.): Stanley Tigerman. Beyond Scale. Two Projects for the Physically Handicapped. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (Minnesota, USA) 1978.
• Stanley Tigerman (Ed.): Late Entries to the Chicago Tribune Tower Competition. Rizzoli, New York City 1980. (exhibition catalog)
• Versus. An American Architect's Alternatives . Rizzoli, New York City 1982, ISBN 0-8478-0433-X .
• Volker Fischer , Stanley Tigerman (Illustrator): Stanley Tigerman, Architoons. The autobiographical pop voices of an American architect. (Exhibition catalog of the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt am Main) Ernst & Sohn, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-433-02278-X .
• Stanley Tigerman: The Architecture of Exile . Rizzoli, New York City 1988, ISBN 0-8478-0902-1 .
• Sarah Mollmann Underhill: Stanley Tigerman. Buildings and Projects 1966-1989. Rizzoli, New York City 1990, ISBN 0-8478-1128-X .
• Stanley Tigerman (Ed.): The Postmodern Salon. Architects on architects. Jaquelin Robertson. Birkhäuser, Basel / Berlin / Boston 1991, ISBN 3-7643-2486-4 .
• Stanley Tigerman: Designing Bridges to Burn. Architectural Memoirs by Stanley Tigerman . Oro Editions, Novato 2011, ISBN 978-1-935935070 .

literature

• Emmanuel Pott (Ed.): Schlepping through Ambivalence. Essays on an American Architectural Condition. Stanley Tigerman. Yale University Press, New Haven 2011, ISBN 978-0-300-17541-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Stanley Tigerman in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of the architecture firm Tigerman McCurry Architects
• CV on www.designerlexicon.net
• Decor Sunshine at www.brooklynmuseum.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Stanley Tigerman, pillar of Chicago architecture, dies at 88 , chicago.suntimes.com, June 3, 2019, accessed June 4, 2019
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ The Magnificent Seventh. Anyone who builds crockery and furniture also furnishes buildings. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of September 20, 2010