[1] 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.
[1] For 11 years McCurry worked in the Chicago office of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) where Davis Allen (1916–1999) became her mentor.
[2] While at SOM, the projects she worked on included the interiors of the National Life and Accident Insurance Company in Nashville[2] and the East Wing addition to the Art Institute of Chicago including the School of the Art Institute and the Rubloff Auditorium.
[6] In 2017, McCurry and her husband Stanley Tigerman announced they will be retiring and closing down their Chicago office.
[10] Margaret has written about her life with Stanley and memories at their home at 900-910 North Lake Shore lakefront high-rise apartment built by Mies van der Rohe.