Stanley Tigerman Buildings & Projects PB

As the author of almost two hundred architectural projects, and as one of the leading educators in the profession today, Stanley Tigerman's position within the American architectural establishment is firmly assured. In this, the first monograph to be presented on his work, forty-seven building and interior design projects are fully documented with copious illustrations, many in full color. In addition, twenty decorative arts designs which have been commissioned by such renowned firms as Alessi, Formica, Herman Miller, and Swid Powell are included. The work shown in this volume covers roughly the past twenty-five years, but it is the more recent projects that occupy Tigerman in his introduction. He has recently become obsessed, he explains, with a theory he describes as "failed attempts at healing an irreparable wound." Beginning in 1976, he says, he began to "cleave" or "rupture" holistically concieved Platonic forms to prevent them from acheiving closure; he undertook to elaborate on the theme of disintegration as a strategy for engaging in architectural procedures. He is now beginning to establish a body of work in which he attempts, through architecture, to express the ethical dilemma of our time, the salient feature of which, he feels, is disjunction. Nevertheless, Tigerman explains that he still feels an innate optimism inherent in the practice of architecture, a force, he says, that motivates a search for an ideal that is, perhaps, unattainable. Although Stanley Tigerman's practice is in Chicago, he has designed buildings throughout the United States and has been commissioned for projects in Japan, West Germany, and Bangladesh. He has been the author of four previous Rizzoli books The Chicago Tribune Tower Competition and Late Entries, Versus: An American Architect's Alternative, Architecture of Rome: A Nineteenth-century Itinerary by Giovanni Battista Cipriani, and most recently, The Architecture of Exile. Tigerman has also written extensively for architectural journals, and he has lectured throughout the world. His work has been exhibited at museums and galleries in many countries, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He was one of the architects chosen to represent the United States at the 1980 Venice Biennale, and in the same year he was appointed Architect-in-Residence at the American Academy in Rome. In 1988 he designed the installation for thr large presentation of Chicago architecture at the Art Insitute of Chicago, and in 1989 he curated and designed an exhibition on the same subject for the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon.