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  • Maya Lin's work encompasses large-scale environmental installations, intimate studio artworks, architectural works, and memorials.
  • Maya Lin, the architect of the memorial, thought about uniting the memorial to the nation's past, bringing together the past and the present.
  • Maya Lin, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, faces fervent opposition to her spare design – two long walls gliding into the land, bearing the.

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    Maya Lin’s Memorial to Vanishing Nature

    In , a Yale undergraduate named Maya Lin was catapulted to global prominence when her design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., was chosen over 1, other entries. Her striking creation — a black stone gash in the earth inscribed with the names of more than 58, American soldiers killed in the Vietnam War — remains one of the world’s most moving war monuments.

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    Now, three decades later, Lin has turned her attention to what she calls her “last memorial” — a global multimedia project aimed at drawing attention to the rapid loss of biodiversity and natural abundance. Centered around an interactive Web site that features more than 75 videos, scores of audio recordings of birds and animals, and photos and text that are an elegy for lost and threatened species, Lin’s “What is Missing?” project has the same arresting, unsettling qualities that are a hallmark of her Vietnam memorial.



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  • 1. Maya Lin By: Alex Chung

  • 2. Maya Lin’s Biography American/ kinesisk Born October 5, Ohio, Athens Athens is also home of Ohio University. Where Lin’s Mother, Julia Chang Lin, a poet, was a literature Professor, and her late father, Henry Huan Lin, was a ceramicist. Style: Landscape/ Architecture/ Memorials School: Yale University

  • 3. Vietnam Veteran Memorial As a 21 year old student architecture student at Yale, Lin designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a class project, then entered it in the largest design competition in American history. The V-shaped wall of black stone etched with the names of 58, dead soldiers. Her inspiring vision has since become the most-visited memorial in the nation's capital.

  • 4. Inspirations She draw inspiration from culturally diverse sources which includes Japanese gardens, Hopewell Indian earthen mounds, and American earthworks from the s and s. She also draws inspiration from her Chinese culture. An example would be the V
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    Maya Lin’s Utopian Pragmatism

    The American sees her work as founded on a mix of art, architecture and the creation of memorials, all of which she uses to honour the past and reshape the future

    Could it happen today, in the political climate of America? As the famous story goes, in , a twenty-one-year-old undergraduate submits a highly unconventional proposal for a Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC, and in a blind competition against more than 1, other entries, she wins. Maya Lin, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, faces fervent opposition to her spare design – two long walls gliding into the land, bearing the names of the American dead – but in it is installed on the National Mall, and it makes her a star.

    The Vietnam Veterans Memorial has become one of the great sacred spaces in the United States. Walking down its path, people grow quiet. They use crayons and pencils to rub names onto paper. They leave flowers and other items. They linger. It is not universally ador