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About the Artist

 

Watts Towers was built by Simon Rodia, an Italian immigrant, over a thirty-four year period between 1921 and 1955. Watts Towers consists of nine hand-built towers of varying heights: The tallest is 99 feet high!  Rodia built the structure of the towers entirely out of wire and concrete. Before the concrete dried, he covered it with an elaborate mosaic of found objects. He didn’t even use scaffolding to reach the towers as he constructed them. He would simply stand on the part that he had already built to construct the next section.