Siah Armajani

Siah Armajani (born 1939) is an Iranian-born American sculptor. Siah Armanjani designed the Olympic Torch presiding over the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. He has worked on other projects such as the New York Staten Island tower and bridge, the Round Gazebo in Nice, F... Read more

Siah Armajani (born 1939) is an Iranian-born American sculptor.

Siah Armanjani designed the Olympic Torch presiding over the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. He has worked on other projects such as the New York Staten Island tower and bridge, the Round Gazebo in Nice, France, and the Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. His 2005 work, Fallujah, is a modern take on Picasso’s Guernica but has been censored in the U.S. due to its critical view of the war in Iraq. One of Armajani’s important projects is located at North Shore Esplanade at St. George’s Ferry Terminal, Staten Island, NY. Armajani has said: "All buildings and all streets are ornaments. Moreover, the lighthouse and bridge gives a place to the representational arts of poetry, music, and performing. By embracing all of the arts, the lighthouse and bridge asserts its own perspective everywhere.

In 2010 he won a Fellow award granted by United States Artists.

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