School Notes: School of Architecture
September/October 2011

Celebrating an Architect’s Legacy

A retrospective exhibition celebrating Stanley Tigerman ’60BArch, ’61MArch, opens the 2011–12 season at the School of Architecture Gallery. Titled ‘Ceci n’est pas une reverie’ [This isn’t a dream]: The Architecture of Stanley Tigerman, the show takes a thematic approach, grouping Tigerman’s projects according to motifs that resonate throughout his work: “utopia,” “allegory,” “death,” “humor,” and “division.” Featured are original paintings, sketches, and cartoons; household objects designed by Tigerman; and models of projects that exemplify his evolving style, along with videotaped interviews, lectures, and archival material dating to his student days at Yale.

Tigerman, a principal of the Chicago-based firm Tigerman McCurry Architects, has designed buildings and installations throughout North America, western Europe, and Asia. He has been a visiting professor at Yale and Harvard and was director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago for eight years. In 1994 he and Eva Maddox founded Archeworks, an alternative design school in Chicago. The complete archive of Tigerman’s drawings will be housed in the Yale University Library’s manuscripts & archives department beginning in 2012.

Lectures Highlight Fall Events

A series of events at the school is bringing prominent speakers to campus this fall, including Joel Kotkin, an authority on global, political, eonomic, and social trends, and author of The Next Hundred Million: America in 2050.Kotkin will present the Brendan Gill lecture, “The American Landscape in 2050,” on October 20. Visit the website for the complete list of the semester’s lectures, films, and symposia.