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Stanley Tigerman, Dean of Chicago Architects, Dies
Stanley Tigerman, widely regarded as the dean of Chicago architecture, died Monday at his home in Chicago after a long battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the Chicago Tribune reported. Tigerman was 88.
Along with other postmodern architects of international renown, among them the late Philip Johnson and Michael Graves, Tigerman in the 1970s and 1980s broke from the tenets of modernism established by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Bruce Graham.
His major buildings include the Illinois Holocaust Memorial Museum and Education Center in Skokie; the Chicago Bar Assocation headquarters, designed with wife and business partner Margaret McCurry; and the Anti-Cruelty Society, whose windows resemble the cheeks of a basset hound.
In 1993, Tigerman was fired from his post as director of the University of Illinois at Chicago’s school of architecture. Fifteen years later, the American Institute of Architects awarded Tigerman its Topaz Medallion for Excellence in Architectural Education.
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