Stanley Tigerman
American, 1930–2019
Little House in the Clouds
INV-2149
Stanley Tigerman
American, 1930–20191976
Little House in the Clouds
Stanley Tigerman American, 1930–2019 →20th Centuryarchitectural drawingarchitecture
Date
1976
Medium
Painted, flocked formed plastic
Dimensions
13 × 61 × 61 cm (5 × 24 × 24 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Stanley Tigerman
Created for the first exhibition of Chicago Seven, an iconic group of architects, at the Richard Gray Gallery in Chicago, Little House in the Clouds displays the symbolic gestures and formal language that define Stanley Tigerman’s architecture. Tigerman questions man’s relationship to nature through the tenuous connection of the house with the land while also referencing historical precedents from modernism such as Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye (1931) and Mies van der Rohe’s Farnsworth House (1951). The partially mirrored facade reflects the image of man onto the building to reinforce his presence within the landscape.
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