Stanley Tigerman: Buildings and Projects 1966-1989
Stanley Tigerman: Buildings and Projects 1966-1989
Stanley Tigerman: Buildings and Projects 1966-1989
The work shown in this volume covers roughly the past twenty-five years, but it is the more recent projects that occupy Tigerman in his Introduction. He has recently become obsessed, he explains, with a theory he describes as "failed attempts at healing an irreparable wound." Beginning in 1976, he says, he began to "cleave" or "rupture" holistically conceived Platonic forms to prevent them from achieving closure; he undertook to elaborate on the theme of disintegration as a strategy for engaging in architectural production. He is now beginning to establish a body of work in which he attempts, through architecture, to express the ethical dilemma of our time, the salient feature of which, he feels, is disjunction. Nevertheless, Tigerman explains that he still feels an innate optimism inherent in the practice of architecture, a force, he says, that motivates a search for an ideal that is, perhaps, unattainable.
