Ceci n’est pas une rêverie:
The Architecture of Stanley Tigerman
On view at the Graham Foundation through May 19, 2012
Graham Foundation
For Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Madlener House
4 West Burton Place
Chicago, Illinois 60610
Ceci n’est pas une rêverie (This is not a dream) is both a retrospective and a reexamination of the architectural concepts of legendary Chicago architect Stanley Tigerman. Throughout the exhibition, Tigerman’s texts, sketches, cartoons, object designs, architectural drawings, and models are organized in relation to nine themes that single out certain leitmotifs of his thought since 1960: Utopia, Allegory, Humor, Death, Division, (Dis)Order, Identity, Yaleiana, and Drift. Evident in this work is Tigerman’s insistence on the transitory nature of architectural interpretations and on the spiritual and ethical value of ambivalence. The installation spreading through all three floors of the Graham Foundation’s Madlener House builds on the playful, oneiric, and surrealist undercurrent of Tigerman’s work and underscores the abiding importance of his approach.
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UPCOMING PANEL DISCUSSION
No Do-Overs: Compromise and Complicity in Architecture
SAM JACOB, LIZA FIOR & DAMON RICH
MAR 29, 2012 6PM
While grand visions are usually considered the currency of contemporary architecture, the truth is that compromise—or rather, the more uncomfortable sensation of being compromised—is the natural state of the architect and the condition under which architecture is made. Context for architecture is never pure or abstract; it is a site both physically, economically and politically inscribed with competing interests. These compromised positions and scoured surfaces are where architecture’s political and ideological subtexts are revealed. Yet from these cloudy waters, the most innovative, relevant and unexpected forms of architecture can emerge.
Sam Jacob of FAT, Liza Fior of muf and Damon Rich of Newark will reveal their own complicities and compromises and discuss how these conditions can become the ground for creative and engaged forms of architecture and urban planning.
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