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Whenever 18-year-old Maya Lin walked through Yale University’s Memorial Rotunda, she couldn’t resist passing her fingers over the marble walls engraved with the names of those alumni who...
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 1982. National Mall, Washington D.C. Sponsor: Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. Architect of Record: Cooper-Lecky Partnership. Landscape Architect: Henry Arnold. Photography: Terry Adams, Mark Segal, Victoria Sambunaris, Wendy Watriss.
It’s the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and since 1982, it has commemorated military personnel who died or were declared missing in action during their Vietnam War service.
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, commonly called the Vietnam Memorial, is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War.
Maya Lin. Artist, designer and environmentalist, Maya Lin interprets the natural world through science, history, politics, and culture, creating a remarkable and highly acclaimed body of work in art and architecture.
How a piece of public art helped us confront and embrace the human cost of national action. By Gabriel Bell May 27, 2019. The story of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. isn’t actually one about its creator, Maya Lin. It’s not one about design, architecture, or art.
A design competition was announced, and 21-year-old Yale architecture student Maya Lin earned the unanimous selection. The central element of Lin's memorial is the shiny black granite wall in a wide V shape, with one "arm" directed toward the Lincoln Memorial and the other toward the Washington Monument.
A powerful accumulation of names is inscribed on slabs of reflective stone that cuts into the earth on the Mall. Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial, 1982, granite, 2 acres within Constitution Gardens (National Mall, Washington, D.C.)
In doing so, he good things to say about Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which he calls “the greatest of modern American memorials.” Lin’s design, he writes, “pursued the line [of “minimal geometric abstraction”] with a radical passion, taking the classical purity of the American tradition and of the Great War memorials, and ...
Lin's works include the Civil Rights Memorial in Alabama, the Langston Hughes Library in Tennessee and What Is Missing? — the massive, ongoing, environmental activism project she launched in...