Sculptor and architect Maya Lin is best known for her design of the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial in Washington, D.C., but modern viewers may not know about her rise to prominence and the ...

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

How Maya Lin’s Vietnam War Memorial broke the competition’s biggest rule Go inside the classroom process that helped refine Lin's submission to the open design contest By James Reston Jr.

Lin’s spare visual language gave the Vietnam Memorial its haunting power, and now she uses that vocabulary to speak out on environmental tragedies.

The Smithsonian spotlights Maya Lin in biographical show Heavily criticized 40 years ago for her Vietnam Veterans' Memorial design, the artist-architect-activist prefers to talk about her artistic ...

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

The national controversy surrounding Maya Lin’s design for the Vietnam War Memorial is the subject of Livian Yeh’s nimble, process-driven play.

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

Sculptor and architect Maya Lin is best known for her design of the Vietnam Veterans’ Memorial in Washington, D.C., but modern viewers may not know about her rise to prominence and the ...