Siah Armajani

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Siah Armajani was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1939. He designed the tower, bridge, and cauldron for the 1996 Centennial Olympics. Other works include The Chess Garden, Floating Poetry Room, Gazebo with Picnic Table, Room for Noam Chomsky: The Last Anarchist, and Room for the First Anarchist Henry David Thoreau. Fallujah, completed in 2004-2005, is hailed as a modern take on Picasso’s Guernica. Armajani works and lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Links

• “Return to Exile: Siah Armajani” by Murtaza Vali. ArtAsiaPacific. Issue 69, Jul/Aug 2010.
• “Building a Beacon for a Kingdom by the Sea” by Dinitia Smith. Review of Armajani’s public art. New York Times. 28 July 1996.
• Example of visual art

Media

CRY HAVOC! Poetry of War and Remembrance 1968-2008 | March 31, 2009
SYMPOSIUM II: Terror and Image: Poetry, the Built, and the Visual from Cambodia to El Salvador to Fallujah

CRY HAVOC! Poetry of War and Remembrance 1968-2008 | March 31, 2009
SYMPOSIUM III: War and Remembrance: Surviving with Language and Memory