Fallujah - McKnight Foundation

1983 NOAA Bridges opens to the public
SIAH ARMAJANI | 2010
1985 “Siah Armajani: Bridges, Houses, Communal Spaces, Dictionary for
Building” opens at the Institute of Contemporary Art at the university
of Pennsylvania
1986 Begins collaborating with architect Cesar Pelli, fellow artist Scott Burton, and
landscape architect M. Paul Friedberg on the World Financial Center Plaza at
Battery Park City in New york, New york
1987 Solo exhibitions in Switzerland, Netherlands, Germany, and France include
Sacco and Vanzetti Reading Room No. 1
1988 Irene Hixon Whitney Bridge opens in Minneapolis, as do SkyBridge #1 and
the Humphrey Garden
1989 Collaborates with Pelli on structures for the yerba Buena Center office tower
in San Francisco and the Norwest Center (SkyBridge #1) in Minneapolis;
World Financial Center Plaza opens to the public
1990 Profiled by Calvin Tomkins in the March 19 issue of The New Yorker;
Sacco and Vanzetti Reading Room No. 4 shown at Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
1991 Sacco and Vanzetti Reading Room No. 3 included in “20th Century Art”
exhibition at Museum für Moderne kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
1992 “The Poetry Garden and Recent Works” opens at the Lannan Foundation
in Los Angeles
1995 Has solo show at the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain (Mamco),
Geneva
1996 Muhammad Ali lights the cauldron of the Bridge, Tower, Cauldron sculpture
commissioned for the Summer Olympics in Atlanta
1998 Room for Noam Chomsky: The Last Anarchist installed at P.S. 1 in Long
Island City, New york
2000 Bridge for Iowa City opens in Iowa City, Iowa