Maya lin biography wikipedia english

(1959-)

Who Is Maya Lin?

Maya Lin received her bachelor's degree from Yale, where she studied architecture and sculpture. During her senior year, she won a nationwide competition to create a design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

Her minimalist design aroused controversy but has become very popular with the public over the years.

Early Years

Maya Lin is the daughter of Chinese intellectuals who fled their homeland in 1948, not long before the 1949 Communist takeover.

Lin studied architecture and sculpture at Yale University and graduated with a bachelor’s degree in 1981.

Vietnam Veterans Monument

In a fateful moment, in her senior year at Yale Lin entered a nationwide competition to design a monument to be erected in honor of soldiers who had served and died in the Vietnam War.

And at age 21, she would become an artist to watch when her design took first prize in the contest and the monument she designed was slated to be built at the northwest corner of the Na