Armen Zaryan Talking About His Father-Kostan Zaryan

Armen Zaryan was born in Constantinople. He studied at the Murad Rafaelian College in Venice, after graduating - for two years studied at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Venice, in 1941 he continued his studies at the University of Rome. From 1937 to 1939 studied at École des Beaux-Arts of Paris then returned to Rome. He was an architect in Vienna from 1947 to 1949, in 1950 went to Morocco to fulfill a project with Italian architects. There he opened a studio and designed residential houses, blocks with villas. Armen Zaryan returned to Rome in 1955 and participated in designing several public buildings. In 1963 Zaryan and his family moved to Armenia. In Armenia he designed several residential and public buildings, including the twenty-story building on Etchmiadzin road, a living house on Mashtots Avenue, the whole project of Avan gorge. Zaryan worked at “Yerevan project” from 1963 to 1989. Since 1964 was a member of Architects Union of Armenia, since 1969 Candidate of Architectural Science. In 1969 Armen Zaryan was awarded with Honorary Architect of Armenia. Died in Yerevan.