Illinois Institute of Technology College of Architecture and MAS Context, in collaboration with Yale School of Architecture, are organizing the book launch of Stanley Tigerman: Drawing on the Ineffable. The October 27 event will begin at 5 p.m. in S. R. Crown Hall. Tigerman was a Chicago native and Yale alumnus ('60 BArch, '61 MArch).

This free program will include presentations by the book’s editor George Papamattheakis; Yale School of Architecture Dean Deborah Berke and architects Thomas Kelley and Margaret McCurry, who all contributed to the book; and College of Architecture Professor John Ronan. The presentations will be followed by a question-and-answer session moderated by College of Architecture Dean Reed Kroloff and Iker Gil, the 2024 Victor A. Morgenstern Family Visiting Chair in Architecture.

“This retrospective paints a new portrait of the legendary architect Stanley Tigerman through his drawings, collages, and sketches,” Yale University Press says of the book, released in July 2025. “The book showcases a variety of creative documents and drawing styles, representative of the wide array of Tigerman’s projects and interests: master plans, urban designs, civic infrastructures such as museums and low-income housing, private residences, exhibition designs, furniture, and tableware, as well as architectural cartoons—his so-called Architoons. From the pragmatic and technical to the symbolic and narrative-driven, the drawings bring us into Tigerman’s creative process and capture his unique blend of intellect, wit, and humanistic sensibility.”