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"Stanley Tigerman: An Architectural Journey\nIn anticipation of Yale's upcoming exhibition celebrating the career of this award-winning architect, AD visits some of his inventive\u2014and at times theatrical\u2014homes that have graced our pages\nThis residence in Chicago's Highland Park neighborhood is a study in absolute symmetry. The entire house is perfectly balanced, as evidenced by the rear elevation shown here, from the vaulted and multigabled fa\u00E7ade to the placement of the windows to the geometric profile of the black-and-white-tiled pool terrace. (July 1986)\nIt has been said that Tigerman understands how to make architecture that is fun yet intelligent, and he did just that for clients living on the outskirts of Chicago. The unconventional layout of the house he created comprises two gabled wings that protrude from a central tower, resulting in a V-shaped structure. (December 1990)\nA few years later\u2014after the clients decided they needed a ceremonial place to dine when company came\u2014Tigerman affixed an octagonal dining pavilion to this Chicago-area home, with a glazed passageway connecting the two structures. (Previously the owners ate in the living room or at a counter in the kitchen.) The \"gazebo tree house,\" as the architect refers to it, enhances the romantic character of the home while establishing a distinct identity through its scale and cladding. (February 1998)\nIn 1964 Tigerman founded his firm, which his wife, Margaret McCurry, also an architect, joined in 1982. Over the years they have collaborated on a number of projects, including this residence outside Chicago. \"We tried to make each of the rooms a building in itself to form a villagelike aggregate,\" Tigerman explains. The limestone base and seamed zinc roofs unify the home's disparate spaces and asymmetrical cluster of structures. (May 1992)\nTigerman maintains that his architecture is not tied to one particular approach, that he has a freedom and flexibility absent in the work of his peers, saying, \"I don't do work that you can peg.\" He describes this brick house for a family on Chicago's North Shore as \"hybridized American architecture with Italianate, Prairie School, and early modernist forms.\" The rear vista\u2014of Lake Michigan and a wooded hillside\u2014was especially important to the homeowner. With this in mind, Tigerman incorporated nearly floor-to-ceiling windows and French doors that open to the rear garden, as well as a series of roundels that offer focused views from the second-floor gallery. (August 1994)\nTigerman and McCurry also collaborated on this high-rise apartment in Chicago. Though the design deviates from their usual style, it has elements that reflect the breadth of both architects' work. Tigerman calls it \"a hybrid of spare, reductive modernism and spare, reductive classicism.\" Pictured: With walls of shelves that evoke the city grid, the library is on an axis with the light-suffused dining room and, beyond, the music area of the living room. (April 1997)\nTigerman created a compound of architecturally diverse structures on an old dairy farm in rural Michigan. Instead of tearing down or overwhelming the original 1860s Greek Revival farmhouse, he enhanced it by attaching a one-story addition. But the great triumph of the property is a cluster of cedar-framed screened pavilions erected between the ponds. Tigerman's perfectly symmetrical design is a whimsical and rustic take on the classical temple. (June 1998)\nFor a residence in Aspen's historic West End district, Tigerman and McCurry were inspired by vernacular miners' houses, using simple materials such as cedar for the siding and aluminum for the roofs. \"The craggy stepped-back forms are a response to the mountains,\" McCurry notes. A departure from the typical neighborhood aesthetic, the home turned out to be controversial among local architecture buffs, but for Tigerman, controversy and discussion are essential to the design process. (May 1999)\n\"We did absolutely everything, from devising the display systems to designing the fittings in the closets. We framed the art, placed it, and hung it,\" Tigerman says of the museum-like high-rise apartment he and his wife completed in Chicago for art-collecting clients. Pictured: The living room features a table by the architect, one of five he designed in the residence. Tigerman, as he often does, gives all the credit to McCurry: \"I did the tables, but anything else that looks beautiful is because of her.\" (March 2004)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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