The American Institute of Architects Chicago (AIA Chicago) has announced that Stanley Tigerman, FAIA, has been named the recipient of the 2013 AIA Chicago Lifetime Achievement Award.

For his innovative design in over 175 built works for "all levels of society"—from the LEED-silver rated Pacific Garden Mission on Chicago's Near West Side to the iconic Boardwalk Apartments on the North Side to Skokie's Holocaust Memorial Foundation—to his mentorship of generations of aspiring architects as an academic leader, and for his intellectual influence as a writer, critic and advocate for the architectural profession, Tigerman "has assured his legacy as one of the shining architectural luminaries in the history of Chicago," says Steven Wisenthal, FAIA, Associate Vice President & University Architect for the University of Chicago.

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