Chicago architect Stanley Tigerman, a founding member of the rebellious postmodern architecture group Chicago Seven, has passed away aged 88.
Tigerman died yesterday following a battle with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, his wife and partner Margaret McCurry told Architect Magazine.
The architect was among the seven founding members of the Chicago Seven, along with Larry Booth, Stuart Cohen, Ben Weese, James Ingo Freed, Tom Beeby and James L Nagle. Established in 1976, the postmodern group rebelled against the modern architectural movement influenced by architect Mies van der Rohe, which was prevalent in the city.
In a backlash against pared-back modernism, Tigerman and his peers designed in a more decorative fashion that drew on historical influences. Among examples of these are Tigerman's Anti-Cruelty Animal Shelter in the city's River North neighbourhood, which he completed in 1981 with a playfully punctured facade. "A man of wit, warmth, earnestness and passion"
Members of the architecture and design community have taken to social media to pay tribute to the architect, including writer and critic Paul Goldberger who described him as a "giant of our time in architecture".
"Stanley Tigerman, a man of wit, warmth, earnestness and passion for architecture and for Chicago, and most of all for what the combination of architecture and Chicago could mean for our time," Goldberger tweeted.
Architecture firm SOM, where Tigerman spent a brief ...