Armen Kankanian was born in Yerevan, Armenia, in 1959. Although he wanted to become an artist from an early age, he trained as an architect. This decision is significant: Armenia was the first nation to embrace Christianity and has the earliest surviving church buildings still in use-the oldest dates from 303. Situated at the meeting point of Europe, Asia, and Africa, Armenia has historically been a matrix of cultures and the battleground of countless armies. Through centuries of invasions, this people's ~uniquely styled stone churches have survived as the central vehicle of...more
