- Macalester College
Siah Armajani moved from Tehran to the United States in 1960 and developed a practice at the boundary of sculpture, architecture and civic space. Bridges, reading rooms, gardens and houses became models for democratic encounter, often drawing on vernacular American architecture and political philosophy.
Sculpture; architecture; public art; drawing
Objects
Major Works
- 1970Bridge Over Tree
- 1978Reading Room for Nobody Knows
- 1988Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge
- 1992Gazebo for Two Anarchists
- 2004–05Fallujah
- 1974–75Dictionary for Building
- 1988Sacagawea Project
- 1990Elements No. 30
- 1977Seven Rooms of Hospitality
- 2005Prayer for the Surface of the Earth
Related Artists
Interviews & Writing
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