A RESOLUTION HONORING ARCHITECT STANLEY TIGERMAN AS THE RECIPIENT OF THE 2013 AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTS CHICAGO LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
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WHEREAS, Stanley Tigerman is known for his innovative design in over 175 built works for all levels of society from the LEED-silver rated Pacific Garden Mission on Chicago's Near West Side to the iconic Boardwalk Apartments on the North Side to Skokie's Holocaust Memorial Foundation;
And, WHEREAS, the Chicago native, born in 1930, trained in the Chicago offices of Keck & Keck, Milton Schwartz, and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill and earned both his BArch and MArch under the guidance of Paul Rudolph at Yale, and has served as co-founding principal of Tigerman McCurry Architects;
And, WHEREAS, he is a founding member of The Chicago Seven, Stanley Tigerman's famous collage of Mies van der Rohe's Crown Hall sinking into Lake Michigan offered a visual blueprint of the group's challenge to the modernist orthodoxy of Chicago architecture;
And, WHEREAS, Stanley Tigerman is a prolific author whose work includes The Chicago Tribune Tower Competition and Late Entries; Versus: An American Architect's Alternatives; The California Condition: A Pregnant Architecture; The Architecture of Exile; and Stanley Tigerman: Buildings and Projects 1966-1989;
And, WHEREAS, in his work as the director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois, co-founder of ARCHEWORKS in Chicago, and his work as a visiting professor at Yale and Harvard, and lectures at every major School of Architecture in the United States, he is a mentor and leader for generations of students and followers, who continue to implement aspects of his vision throughout their work;
And, WHEREAS, Stanley Tigerman is one of the minds behind the Chicago Architects Project, an ongoing and evolving genealogy of Chicago architects, their work and their interrelationships and influences among the profession from the 19th century to the present day;
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED th...
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