#stanley tigerman

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Hot Dog House, Harvard, Illinois, 1976.

Architect: Stanley Tigerman

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Stanley Tigerman &  Associates, Vollen Barn, Ground Floor Plan, Southern Wisconsin, 1970-73

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Postmodern Rowhouse Designs by the Chicago Seven, 1978

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“Urban Matrix”, floating town with tetrahedral residential units (instant city). Arch. Stanley Tigerman. 1972

 In this project , as in his better known ’ Instant City ’ , Tigerman shows how coastal towns can be expanded by the addition of marine structures . Inverted tetrahedra are linked together in a composite structure and are sup ported by multi - storeyed pontoons , which are anchored to the seabed by high strength cables . The tetrahedra can be stacked one upon the other up to a maximum of three storeys and , in order to reduce their weight , high strength aluminium is used throughout . The static backbone of the tetrahedra is formed by the outer trusses. These are octagonal in shape and have a dia meter of 5 . 50 metres , which would allow both goods and people to be transported in electronically controlled capsules in any one of the eight compartments in each truss . Any number of residential units , each containing 163 tetrahedra , can be in corporated into the Urban Matrix . Of the 163 tetrahedra , 130 are to be set aside purely for communal and commercial purposes . The remaining 33 , which would be designated for mixed residential and public use , would each contain about 500 apartments ( 3 distributed over the first 24 floors . These apartments would be installed along the external faces of the tetrahedra , which would also serve communal , commercial and mechanical functions on their upper floors .

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La Strada Novissima, Venice 2021 Dead Famous Presenting the Past; an anthology of architectural dreams that have crossed over. Collectively they describe a world we have no idea how to inhabit but they do offer a sense of fragility to the human frame. Architecture and Mortality are held in a very delicate symbiosis as they attempt to express the wealth of an idea. Together, these dead famous architects have the residue of their imagination firmly placed on the world while together we wonder what it was all for; for what event that time needs to describe so vividly.

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The Titanic, architectuurkritiek van Stanley Tigerman anno 1978.

The groundbreaking innovations of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe left a lasting impact on both the practice and teaching of architecture in the United States, especially in Chicago. As director of the School of Architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Mies stressed the importance of bold, clean designs based on structure, materials, and function. Stanley Tigerman was among the many architects schooled in the Miesian tradition, and he based much of his work in the 1960s and 1970s on the designs of the famed architect. Tigerman’s restless curiosity and iconoclastic spirit, however, led him to question the authority and durability of Mies’s program. The Titanic is a conceptual project that was meant to provoke architects to contend with the Mies legacy, challenging them to choose sides: move beyond Mies or remain cemented to the past. The photocollage pitches Mies’s Crown Hall (1950–56), one of the architect’s most iconic and revered designs, into the deep. Tigerman mailed copies of the work to members of the architectural establishment, including an offer of a one-way ticket on the Titanic. Although the title of the work portends the end of Mies’s dominance, Tigerman acknowledged that many would see the building as rising back to the surface, ever triumphant.

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Stanley Tigerman “...Takes a Bite Out of Keck”, Highland Park Illinois, 1979

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In Memoriam:  

 Stanley Tigerman (September 20, 1930 – June 3, 2019) 

“Hot Dog House”, Harvard, Illinois, USA, 1974