ABSTRACT
Stanley Tigerman studied at MIT, at the Chicago Institute of Design, and at the Yale University School of Architecture. After Yale, he returned to Chicago and an architectural ethos jam-packed with large firms aligned with Miesian modernism, and doing well by it. For him, drawing has led to a life of designing symbolic buildings that make huge statements to the nation and the world. One is his 2009 Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie, IL, a Chicago suburb that's home to a number of Holocaust survivors and also where, in 1977, a group of neo-Nazis threatened to hold a parade. Other architects competing for the Holocaust Museum commission made PowerPoint presentations and offered computer-generated documents. But Tigerman relied on a simple sketch drawn on a paper napkin. It depicted a pair of volumes split like a mass of stone, broken in two by an uninhabitable void representing those who died in Europe's concentration camps.
