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Margaret McCurry
Margaret McCurry (born 1942) is an American architect and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
McCurry was born in Chicago in September 1942. She grew up in two Chicago houses designed by her father, architect Paul McCurry, whom she describes as "an intense modernist [who] nonetheless instilled in his children a curiosity about the architecture of other periods." McCurry graduated from Vassar College in 1964 with a degree in art history and literature.
For 11 years McCurry worked in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) where Davis Allen (1916–1999) became her mentor.
While at SOM, the projects she worked on included the interiors of the National Life and Accident Insurance Company in Nashville and the East Wing addition to the Art Institute of Chicago including the School of the Art Institute and the Rubloff Auditorium.
After leaving SOM, McCurry opened her own firm on April Fool's Day 1977. In 1982, she joined forces with her husband, Stanley Tigerman (1930–2019), to found their Chicago-based firm Tigerman McCurry Architects.
She has served as the chair of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on Design and vice-president of the Illinois chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers.
Some of her projects include the Chicago Bar Association headquarters on Plymouth court, c. 1990, a private apartment on 900 N. Michigan Ave, Chicago, a two-story farmhouse on Lake Michigan, a home in Martha's Vineyard, c. 1995, an update to a midcentury modern home in Chicago written up in Architectural Digest 2009, an article republished by the magazine May 2017.
In 2017, McCurry and her husband Stanley Tigerman announced they will be retiring and closing down their Chicago office.
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Margaret McCurry
Margaret McCurry (born 1942) is an American architect and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.
McCurry was born in Chicago in September 1942. She grew up in two Chicago houses designed by her father, architect Paul McCurry, whom she describes as "an intense modernist [who] nonetheless instilled in his children a curiosity about the architecture of other periods." McCurry graduated from Vassar College in 1964 with a degree in art history and literature.
For 11 years McCurry worked in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) where Davis Allen (1916–1999) became her mentor.
While at SOM, the projects she worked on included the interiors of the National Life and Accident Insurance Company in Nashville and the East Wing addition to the Art Institute of Chicago including the School of the Art Institute and the Rubloff Auditorium.
After leaving SOM, McCurry opened her own firm on April Fool's Day 1977. In 1982, she joined forces with her husband, Stanley Tigerman (1930–2019), to found their Chicago-based firm Tigerman McCurry Architects.
She has served as the chair of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Committee on Design and vice-president of the Illinois chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers.
Some of her projects include the Chicago Bar Association headquarters on Plymouth court, c. 1990, a private apartment on 900 N. Michigan Ave, Chicago, a two-story farmhouse on Lake Michigan, a home in Martha's Vineyard, c. 1995, an update to a midcentury modern home in Chicago written up in Architectural Digest 2009, an article republished by the magazine May 2017.
In 2017, McCurry and her husband Stanley Tigerman announced they will be retiring and closing down their Chicago office.