From being one of the central figures of the Chicago Seven to leading the pedagogical frameworks of the Chicago scene and producing a plethora of built works to the Midwest - Stanley Tigerman had one of the most prolific impacts on a wide variety of architectural and cultural platforms of his generation.
With his recent passing, we take the time to look back at the words, images and, thoughts that provided Stanley Tigerman with the inspiration and motivations for his approach to the discipline.
Stanley Tigerman / Fall 2010 Lecture Series: Project
Stanley Tigerman - Redland/RIBA Lecture
Stanley Tigerman, "Post-modernism is a Jewish movement", 1981-09-21
Scaffolds of Heaven: On Tigerman
Architect Stanley Tigerman: "I consider myself a failure, but I'm also an outsider."
Stanley Tigerman: Chicago architecture (March 3, 1977)
Stanley Tigerman (March 8, 2006)
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I have a lot of good, interesting, combative, fun, negative, positive, and enlightening memories from my time at Archeworks with Stanley and Eva at the helm. We were lucky to have had that time with him (whether the experience for each of us was positive or negative, or both!). For me, the takeaways weren't the individual messages and stories he delivered each week, but the larger 'MESSAGE' - fight for something - anything we did as designers we should believe in and be willing to fight for. Whether our voice, our cause, our clients, our audience, our whatever it was we were building, we had better be ready to fight - because he sure was.
Otherwise we were we wasting not only our own time, but more importantly we would be wasting the time of those we were designing with - and that (as we learned from Stanley) would imply a great lack of respect that we should never tolerate.
Really going to miss his perspective and voice, but glad he had an impact on so many.
I would like to add, respectfully, that Stanley Tigerman also shaped architectural education, far beyond Chicago. During a personally difficult undergraduate year, Stanley was a visiting professor at our school of architecture. Having recently read a book of his, I found solace in his observation that completed buildings remain frozen in time even as we move on and change. This perspective gave me permission to experiment, much to the annoyance of some of my professors. I thanked him for this revelation. Ever humble, he harrumphed and said: "Well, I guess there's a first time for everything!'.
In Norman Doidge's eloquent eulogy of Oliver Sacks, Doidge concluded his tribute thus: And Ambraham died...full of years. Not emptied of them; filled by them". Similarly, Stanley Tigerman lived his life to the fullest and challenged those around him to do the same. Thank you, Stanley.
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