Stanley Tigerman, FAIA, RAAR, to provide remarks at AAF’s Oculus Award Luncheon
Stanley Tigerman, FAIA, RAAR, will join the American Architectural Foundation at the inaugural Oculus Award Luncheon on December 15, 2015, to provide remarks about the Oculus Award honorees, the International Masonry Institute and the International Union of Bircklayers & Allied Craftworkers, and the importance of the craftsperson to the fields of design and cultural heritage.
A principal in the Chicago architectural and design firm of Tigerman McCurry and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, Stanley Tigerman received both his architectural degrees from Yale University in 1960 & 1961. He has designed numerous buildings and installations throughout the United States, Bangladesh, Canada, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Spain, West Germany, Yugoslavia, and Puerto Rico. He has been a visiting chaired professor at numerous universities, including Yale and Harvard. He has served on advisory committees of the Yale and Princeton Schools of Architecture, the Chicago Art Institute’s Department of Architecture. He was a founding member of the Chicago Seven, and is the former Director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago for eight years. In 2008, he co-founded of ARCHEWORKS, a socially oriented design laboratory and school, with Eva Maddox.
Tigerman’s work has also been highlighted in numerous museums, including the Museo di Castelvecchio in 1981, the Art Institute of Chicago in 1990, and the Yale University School of Architecture in 2011. He has authored and edited books on architecture, theory, and design, and is the recipient of numerous awards for his contributions, including Yale University’s first Alumni Arts Award in 1988, the Dean of Architecture Award in 1989, the Illinois Academy of Fine Arts Award in 1992, the American Jewish Committee’s Cultural Achievement Award in 1996, and the International Union of Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers Louis Sullivan Award in September 2000. In 1990, he was inducted into the Interior Design Hall of Fame, and in 2002, Tigerman was presented with an honorary Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Herrington Institute of Design. He is the 2008 recipient of the AIA/ACSA Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education and the AIA Illinois Gold Medal for his outstanding lifetime service. The Architecture and Design Society of the Art Institute of Chicago honored his lifetime achievements at the 2012 Modern Ball, and the following year, he received the Chicago Chapter of the AIA Lifetime Achievement Award. His firm has also received over 100 design awards from the National AIA, the chicago Chapter Aia, PA Design Awards and Record Houses and Interiors.
Mr. Tigerman’s building credits as principal designer include institutional projects such as The Five Polytechnic Institutes in Bangladesh, The Pacific Garden Mission in Chicago, The Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie, Illinois, and the IMI/BAC John J. Flynn International Training Center in Bowie, Maryland, a state-of-the-art facility that houses programs for young architects, apprentices and masonry craftworkers. He has completed both mixed use high rise and low rise housing projects throughout the United States, as well as in Germany and Japan, and he has designed exhibition installations for museums in the United States, Portugal and Puerto Rico. His collaborative works include The Chicago Central Area Plan, the 1992 Chicago World’s Fair, London’s Kings’ Cross and St. Pancras’ High Density Mixed Use Urban Plan and the Chicago’s 2016 Olympic Village Proposal.
