Stanley Tigerman

Stanley Tigerman ( born September 20, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American architect, designer and architectural theorist.

Life

Tigerman studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT ), at the Chicago Institute of Design ( New Bauhaus ) of the University of Illinois and Yale University.

After several years with the U.S. Navy was Tigerman draftsman and designer in several offices. Since 1964 he had his own office in Chicago by the name of Stanley Tigerman and Associates Ltd. - today: Tigerman McCurry Architects. Tigerman taught at several American universities.

In 1997, the honorary membership of the Association of German Architects BDA, he was awarded.

Ark Works

In 1984, Tigerman together with the designer Eva L. Maddox, the design school 's Ark Works, the students in teams with nonprofit partners to develop design solutions for social and environmental purposes. The self-guided as a non-profit organization design school is funded by foundations, businesses, tuition and donations.

Works ( selection)

Tigerman total of nearly 400 all areas of architectural comprehensive projects were carried out in more than 175 cases in different countries:

  • Bangladesh: Five Polytechnic Institutes
  • Chicago: regional library for the blind and physically handicapped for Illinois
  • Zion, Illinois: Powerhouse Energy Museum
  • Hot Dog House: Chicago, Illinois, 1975 - 1976
  • House Daisy: Porter, Indiana, 1976-1978
  • House Richard Marion: Lisle, Illinois, 1979
  • Villa Proeh: Highland Park, Illinois 1979 - 1981
  • Berlin at the International Building Exhibition in 1984, building Tegeler Hafen, House 16C, 1985-1988
  • Apartment building with 16 apartments in 6 Floors: Fukuoka, Kyushu, Japan
  • Showroom Knoll Int., Houston, Texas, 1983

His collaboration in urban planning was done, for example, the Chicago Central Area Plan at the Chicago World's Fair in 1992 and in the use plan for high-density, mixed-use development in London's King's Cross and St Pancras districts.

In the field of design Tigerman, in collaboration with Margaret McCurry created for part of, inter alia:

  • Fa Formica: Double easy- chair. 1983
  • Messrs. Alessi: T & CP, five-piece coffee and tea service in sterling silver, 1983
  • Fa swid Powell: Sunshine motif, eg plates diameter 30.8 cm, 1985

Publications

  • Mildred S. Friedman ( Ed.): Stanley Tigerman: Beyond Scale: Two Projects for the Handicapped Physiclly, WalkerArt Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA in 1978.
  • Volker Fischer and Stanley Tigerman (Ill.): Stanley Tigerman, Architoons: the autobiographical Popveduten an American architect, German Architecture Museum, Frankfurt am Main; Seriously, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-433-02278- X.
  • Stanley Tigerman: The Architecture of Exile. Rizzoli, New York City, USA 1988, ISBN 0-8478-0902-1.
  • Sarah Mollmann Underhill: Stanley Tigerman: Buildings and Projects, 1966 - 1989 Rizzoli, New York City, New York, USA 1990, ISBN 0-8478 1128 - X. .
  • Stanley Tigerman (ed.): The postmodern Salon: architects Architects / Jaquelin Robertson. Birkhäuser, Basel, Berlin, Boston, 1991, ISBN 3-7643-2486-4.
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