Bringing Wit, Humor, and Populism to Architecture.

Stanley Tigerman is a Chicago-based architect known as the "enfant terrible" of midwestern architecture. Although he studied with Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, but in 1976 he decided to break with the Chicago School of architecture and declared he had done his last serious piece. In the same year, he was part of the "Chicago 7," a group of architects who organized a "guerrilla" alternative to the "100 Years of Chicago Architecture" show. Since then, Tigerman has incorporated wit in humor in his work. His buildings include "Daisy House," in the shape of a penis, "Kosher Kitchen for a Jewish American Princess," "Hot Dog House," and "House with a Pompadour." In 1983, he won the American Institute of Architect's Honor Award for his design for the Illinois Regional Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. Tigerman heads his own firm and is a professor at the University of Illinois, Chicago. HIs latest book is "Verses."