Editorial: The Unsinkable Stanley Tigerman

摘要

Architecture lost a great champion last month. Stanley Tigerman, faia, died in his hometown of Chicago at the age of 88, after a long battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. According to his wife and partner, Margaret McCurry, faia, the couple had celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary on St. Patrick's Day this year. Few would argue with the description of Tigerman as the dean (or perhaps more appropriately, the godfather) of Chicago architecture, a position that he occupied de jure during his tenure as director of the architecture school at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and that he occupied de facto from practically the day he started his own practice (today known as Tigerman McCurry) in the early 1960s. A fiercely proud alumnus of Yale University, he spent his formative years in the Navy, at MIT, and with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, early modernist George Frederick Keck, and other practices.