This article was originally published on Autodesk's Line//Shape//Space publication as "Inside My Design Mind: Salt-of-the-Earth Lessons From Architect Stanley Tigerman."

Instant?City?project?model,?1966. Image Courtesy of Tigerman?McCurry?Architects

This article was originally published on Autodesk's Line//Shape//Space publication as "Inside My Design Mind: Salt-of-the-Earth Lessons From Architect Stanley Tigerman."It?s no secret Stanley Tigerman has made a few enemies in his career. Chicago?s pugnacious 85-year-old architecture star and elder statesman, who received a lifetime achievement award from the American Institute of Architects in October, is known perhaps as much for his brand of gloves-off honesty as his buildings. In a 2013 interview with Chicago magazine, he summed up the redesign of the city?s Ludwig Mies van der Rohe?designed IBM tower as ?shit.?But there?s a socially minded, nurturing side of Tigerman?designer of the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Pacific Garden Mission?that is sometimes lost in the offhand bravado of his public-facing comments. As a member of the Chicago Seven (which protested the predominance of modernism) and a provocateur who has organized seminal forums about architecture?s future, Tigerman is more than just tough talk.Here, the architect, educator, and curator reveals a generous and expansive mind, praising the uncompromising will of his role model Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and explaining where ...