Shape of the City
Stanley Tigerman
Architecture critic Paul Goldberger speaks with Stanley Tigerman, Director of the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois at Chicago. This program is the first part of the fifth annual Shape of the City series at the 92nd Street Y. Tigerman shares slides of his architecture projects and argues that there is a “crisis of language” in contemporary architecture. In his discussion with Goldberger, he expands on an argument he made in his book Versus: An American Architect’s Alternatives (1982), that “postmodernism is a Jewish movement.” He argues that both Judaism and postmodernism have an interest in analytical questioning without resolution–”an unresolved dialectic.” He also discusses his criticism of synthesis in architecture, the importance of passion in design, and the influence of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (also known as Mies), particularly in Chicago. The discussion is followed with questions from the audience. Recorded October 20, 1986 at The 92nd Street Y, New York.
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