Stanley Tigerman

Stanley Tigerman (September 20, 1930 – June 3, 2019) was an American architect, theorist and designer.

Biography Early years Tigerman was born into a Jewish family, the only child of Emma (Stern), a typist for the federal government, and Samuel Tigerman, an engineer whose career struggled by the Depression. He grew up in his paternal grandparents' boardinghouse in Edgewater, Chicago. In 1961, Tigerman established a small practice. Tigerman is credited with over 390 projects, and over 175 built works, representing almost every building type.

Other work Tigerman designed exhibition installations for museums in the United States, Portugal and Puerto Rico. In 1976, he helped organize a museum exhibition titled "Chicago Architects" highlighting work from lesser-known architects that he thought were overlooked in Chicago's modernist architectural history. In 1988, Tigerman designed an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago on the architectural history of Chicago.