Stanley Tigerman

Stanley Tigerman, an architect and provocateur noted for playful buildings that offered alternatives to the glass and steel boxes that characterized Chicago for much of the 20th century, died on Monday June 3 2019 in that city. He was 88. His death was confirmed by his wife and professional partner, Margaret McCurry, who is also an architect. Stanley Tigerman was born in Chicago on Sept. 20, 1930, the only child of Emma and Samuel Tigerman and a grandson of Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. He grew up in the city’s Edgewater section, on the North Side. Mr. Tigerman was raised in his grandparents’ boardinghouse in Chicago. Mr. Tigerman graduated from Senn High School in Chicago and studied architecture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He then spent four years in the Navy, serving during the Korean War, before completing his master’s degree in architecture at Yale. He spent five years as director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he recruited some of the leading young theorists of the time. He formed his partnership with Ms. McCurry, his third wife, in the early 1980s. Mr. Tigerman’s first two marriages ended in divorce. He married Ms. McCurry in 1979, and the two lived in an apartment building on Lake Shore Drive. In addition to Ms. McCurry, he is survived by two children, Judson Tigerman and Tracy Leigh Hodges, both from his first marriage, to Judith Richards; and four grandchildren.