Stanley Tigerman
American, 1930–2019
Two Car Garage, Regional Library for the Blind, Chicago, Illinois, Model
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Stanley Tigerman
American, 1930–20191976
Two Car Garage, Regional Library for the Blind, Chicago, Illinois, Model
Stanley Tigerman American, 1930–2019 →20th Centuryarchitectural modelmodel
Date
1976
Medium
Painted cardboard
Dimensions
20 × 21 × 21 cm (8 × 8 3/8 × 8 3/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Stanley Tigerman
Named by the architect after the shape of the plan, the Hot Dog House was developed for a client as a Michigan summer house. The two sides of the narrow home react to the environment—the side facing the highway has a blank facade while the opposite, private side opens up to the natural landscape. In a similar formal approach, the two-car garage for the Regional Library for the Blind derives its form from its function—in this case, a car. Painting the image of a car on the facade for an audience that presumably cannot see is a typically ironic gesture by Tigerman. While this act could be read as tongue-in-cheek, for Tigerman humor is used seriously as a symbolic statement to draw attention to the core issues of a project.
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