A Chicago native and Yale alumnus, Stanley Tigerman ('60 B.Arch, '61 M.Arch) has designed numerous buildings and museum installations throughout North America, Western Europe, and Asia, as well as a range of furniture, household items, and jewelry. His work, including that of his firm, Tigerman McCurry Architects, has received widespread critical acclaim and numerous awards, including seven AIA Honor Awards and more than 120 national and local awards for architecture and design. Tigerman has additionally been a visiting professor and advisory-committee member at several schools of architecture, including Yale and Harvard, and was for eight years director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 1994, he and Eva Maddox co-founded ARCHEWORKS, a school and "socially oriented design laboratory" in Chicago.
![A collage by Stanley Tigerman. A collage by Stanley Tigerman.](/content/dam/domusweb/en/news/2011/08/25/stanley-tigerman-at-yale/big_356283_9316_Low_Tigerman_Collage.jpg.foto.rmedium.jpg)
![Stanley Tigerman's Instant City. Stanley Tigerman's Instant City.](/content/dam/domusweb/en/news/2011/08/25/stanley-tigerman-at-yale/big_356283_6103_Low_Instant_City_12.jpg.foto.rmedium.jpg)
The exhibition marks the 2012 transfer of Stanley Tigerman's drawing archive to Yale University's Manuscripts and Archives depository.
![Stanley Tigerman, Architoon, Houston, 1983. Stanley Tigerman, Architoon, Houston, 1983.](/content/dam/domusweb/en/news/2011/08/25/stanley-tigerman-at-yale/big_356283_1767_Low_Architoon_Houston_1983.jpg.foto.rmedium.jpg)
Ceci n'est pas une rêverie will be accompanied by two lectures.
On August 25, Stanley Tigerman will give a talk titled "Displacement"; on September 1, Mr. Petit will share his insights as exhibition curator in a lecture titled Scaffolds of Heaven: On 3 Tigerman.
Both lectures are free and open to the public and take place in the auditorium of Paul Rudolph Hall at 6:30 pm.
![Stanley Tigerman, Little House Model. Stanley Tigerman, Little House Model.](/content/dam/domusweb/en/news/2011/08/25/stanley-tigerman-at-yale/big_356283_2274_Low_Little_House_Model.jpg.foto.rmedium.jpg)
![Stanley Tigerman, Hinge. Stanley Tigerman, Hinge.](/content/dam/domusweb/en/news/2011/08/25/stanley-tigerman-at-yale/big_356283_3276_Low_Hinge.jpg.foto.rmedium.jpg)