Maya Lin's Vietnam Veterans' Memorial 1980s. In 1979, Congress grants a Vietnam War veterans' committee the right to build a memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C., ...

Maya Lin had an early start. Lin’s design has become so celebrated that it’s easy to forget how young she was when she first proposed it. The national contest to design a Vietnam memorial drew ...

Study for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial by Maya Ying Lin, 1980 Yale University Art Gallery, promised gift of Maya Lin in honor of Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director and Vincent J ...

Maya Lin, architect of the Vietnam Memorial stands during the dedication on Nov. 13, 1982. The Washington Post/Getty Images She was still an undergraduate at Yale in 1981 when her ...

Maya Lin won a national contest to design the Vietnam memorial in 1981 when she was a 21-year-old senior at Yale University. ... Lin designed the memorial as part of a class project.

Time is the essential element in Maya Lin’s design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The scar-like wall in Washington, DC, details the toll of the war by displaying the names of servicemen and ...

Maya Lin is a contemporary Asian-American artist and architect best known for her powerful Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1982) in Washington, D. View Maya Lin’s artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth ...

Maya Lin, the architect known for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., and the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Ala., was the featured speaker Thursday at Union College. Lin ...

Maya Lin was still a college student when her design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial was selected through an open-submission process. Built in 1982 on the National Mall in Washington, the ...

The Vietnam Veterans Memorial wasn’t Maya Lin’s only controversial win. For a while, Lin seemingly couldn’t escape controversy no matter how hard she tried. In 1994, ...