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May 14, 2020 · Encouraged by her professor, the architecture student entered it in the national design competition being held for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to be built on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Maya Ying Lin (born October 5, 1959) is an American architect, designer and sculptor. Born in Athens, Ohio to Chinese immigrants, she attended Yale University to study architecture. In 1981, while still an undergraduate at Yale she achieved national recognition when she won a national design competition for the planned Vietnam Veterans Memorial ...
Vietnam Veterans Memorial, national monument in Washington, D.C., honouring members of the U.S. armed forces who served and died in the Vietnam War (1955–75). The memorial, located near the western end of the Mall, is a black granite V-shaped wall inscribed with the names of the approximately 58,000 men and women who were killed or missing in ...
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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. The two-acre (8,100 m 2 ) site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those service members who died or remain missing as a result of their service in Vietnam and South ...
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
by Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. 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.)
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In a city of classic, white-marble monuments, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial stands out on the National Mall for its stark modernism. Designed by 21-year-old Maya Linn and dedicated in 1982, its two black, 246-foot-long, granite wedges cut into the earth, symbolizing a healing wound. On its dark, shiny face, the half-inch-high names of 58,318 ...
