About this artwork
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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Status
- Currently Off View
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Department
- Architecture and Design
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Artist
- Stanley Tigerman (Architect)
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Title
- Hot Dog House, Harvard, Illinois, Model
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Place
- United States (Object designed in:)
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Date
- 1974–1975
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Medium
- Cardboard, chipboard
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Dimensions
- 20 × 14 × 30 cm (8 × 5 3/8 × 12 in.)
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Credit Line
- Gift of Stanley Tigerman
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Reference Number
- 2012.622
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Copyright
- © Stanley Tigerman
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