Hugely influential architect, and godfather of Chicago's architectural community, Stanley Tigerman has passed away.
The provocative, and famously salty, architect blazed a singular trail within late-20th Century architectural design by fusing the technical prowess of modernist era design with the formal play and programmatic invention inherent in the work of later generations of architects. Tigerman's Anti-Cruelty Society Building from 1981 perhaps best exemplifies this penchant by presenting a geometrically-precise but formally anamorphic facade marked by freeform windows and a see-through, pedimented gable.
In 1994, along with designer Eva Maddox, Tigerman founded Archeworks, a nonprofit public interest design incubator whose mission is to "use the power of design to challenge social, cultural and environmental challenges in Chicago."
In his later years, while at the helm of Tigerman McCurry, a firm started with follow architect and wife Margaret McCurry, Tigerman became a loud booster for all things related to Chicago's architecture and urbanism scenes.
News of Tigerman's death was first reported by Architect magazine.
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What a dick for dying...RIP
Alternate headline suggestion: "A central figure among the Chicago Seven has passed away at 89"
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