Margaret McCurry

Margaret McCurry (born 1942) is an American architect and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

Early life McCurry was born in Chicago in September 1942. She grew up in two Chicago houses designed by her father, architect Paul McCurry, whom she describes as "an intense modernist [who] nonetheless instilled in his children a curiosity about the architecture of other periods." McCurry graduated from Vassar College in 1964 with a degree in art history and literature.

She has served as the chair of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on Design and vice-president of the Illinois chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers.

Some of her projects include the Chicago Bar Association headquarters on Plymouth court, c. 1990, an article republished by the magazine May 2017.

In 2017, McCurry and her husband Stanley Tigerman announced they will be retiring and closing down their Chicago office.

Publications McCurry has published two books: Distillations: The Architecture of Margaret McCurry and Margaret McCurry: Constructing Twenty-Five Short Stories.

She and husband Stanley Tigerman published the children's story "Dorothy in Dreamland" in 1991, where Dorothy helps to alter the timelines of four classic fairytales while dreaming of finding her way back to Kansas. It was illustrated by Tigerman.

Personal life McCurry was married to Stanley Tigerman from 1979 until his death in 2019. Margaret has written about her life with Stanley and memories at their home at 900-910 North Lake Shore lakefront high-rise apartment built by Mies van der Rohe.

Her astrological sign, Libra, plays greatly into her design instincts - "I'm a Libra. Everything in my world has to be ordered and harmoniously balanced."

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