20 Facts About Stanley Tigerman

Stanley Tigerman was an American architect, theorist and designer.

Stanley Tigerman grew up in his paternal grandparents' boardinghouse in Edgewater, Chicago.

Stanley Tigerman won the 'beautiful baby' contest at the 1933 World's Fair.

Stanley Tigerman studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, but flunked out after one year.

Stanley Tigerman then joined the US Navy for four years, serving in the Korean War.

In 1958, Stanley Tigerman was officially an architect through his many years of apprenticeships, and he wrote to MIT, IIT, Yale, and Harvard to apply to their graduate programs, though he still did not have a bachelor's degree.

MIT and Harvard told him he would have to come back as an undergraduate, but after an interview with chairman Paul Rudolph, the Yale School of Architecture allowed Stanley Tigerman to enter a graduate program.

Stanley Tigerman taught at several universities in the United States.

The residential apartment building originally named "Boardwalk Apartments", located at the southeast corner of Montrose and Clarendon Avenues and completed in 1974, was Stanley Tigerman's first built project inspired by Mies van der Rohe.

Stanley Tigerman designed both mixed use high-rise and low-rise housing throughout the United States, and in Germany and Japan.

Stanley Tigerman worked in Bangladesh with Louis I Kahn and Muzharul Islam.

Stanley Tigerman's broad ranging collaborations included projects such as The Chicago Central Area Plan, 1992 Chicago World's Fair, and London's Kings' Cross and St Pancras High Density Mixed Use Urban Plan.

Sometimes McCurry and Stanley Tigerman collaborated on projects, but they typically worked on their own projects.

In May 2017, Stanley Tigerman closed his Chicago office and announced that he was retiring from active practice, but that his wife, Margaret McCurry, would carry on the work of the firm, Stanley Tigerman McCurry Architects.

Stanley Tigerman is credited with over 390 projects, and over 175 built works, representing almost every building type.

Stanley Tigerman designed exhibition installations for museums in the United States, Portugal and Puerto Rico.

In 1988, Stanley Tigerman designed an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago on the architectural history of Chicago.

Stanley Tigerman was director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1988 until he was fired in 1993, after his outspokenness style was not appreciated by the university administration.

Stanley Tigerman wrote several books, including Versus: An American Architect's Alternatives in 1982, a monograph of his work in 1989, and Architecture of Exile.

Stanley Tigerman had a son and daughter from his first marriage.