She was born in Athens, Ohio and studied at Yale. At age 21, while still an undergraduate, she won a public design competition for the Vietnam memorial. The cut stone masonry "Wall" officially opened to the public on November 11, 1982.
Lín went on to design other structures, including the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama (1989). She was also on the committee that selected the 9/11 memorial to be constructed at Ground Zero in New York.
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MayaYing Lin[mI´u] Pronunciation Key, 1959–;, American architect and sculptor, b.
From an artistically distinguished Chinese family who emigrated to the United States in the 1940s, Lin was catapulted to national prominence while still an undergraduate at Yale when her magisterially simple design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. (completed 1982) won a national competition.
Whatever the context or scale of the work, Lin is known for her visual poetry and sensitive mingling of highly abstract form with meaning.
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