Some architects swear by Stanley Tigerman. Others, especially those who’ve been wounded by Tigerman’s biting criticisms, prefer to swear at him. In a disarmingly honest moment, the 81-year-old Chicago design maven tells a film interviewer: “There’ll be a lot of people, when I pass away, that’ll say, ‘He’s gone. Thank God!’“Part of it,” he explains, “is calling it like it is.”Moments and insights like these make a traveling Tigerman retrospective at the Graham Foundation in Chicago well worth seeing, even if you’re already familiar with Tigerman’s eclectic opus and wisecracking...
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Published By: Cityscapes - Thursday, 2 February
