Schlepping Through Ambivalence

Stanley Tigerman was born in Chicago, Illinois on September 20, 1930. He studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He spent four years in the Navy before completing his master's degree in architecture at Yale University. He moved back to Chicago and worked as a draftsman in several offices before establishing a small practice in 1961. In the early 1980s, he founded Tigerman McCurry Architects with his wife Margaret McCurry. He spent five years as director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago but was fired by the university in 1993. Two years later, with the designer Eva L. Maddox, he founded Archeworks, a nondegree-granting institute for students hoping to solve urban problems. Tigerman remained its director for 15 years. He wrote several books including Versus: An American Architect's Alternatives. He died on June 3, 2019 at the age of 88.

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