In 1979, Congress grants a Vietnam War veterans' committee the right to build a memorial on the Mall in ... than the student architect herself, Maya Lin, a 20-year-old Yale undergraduate.

When I won the competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, it was anonymous. You were a number. I was 1026. To this day I have to wonder, had my name been out there, would that have made ...

In 1979, Congress grants a Vietnam War veterans' committee the right to build a memorial on the Mall in ... than the student architect herself, Maya Lin, a 20-year-old Yale undergraduate.

Maya Lin is a contemporary Asian-American artist and architect best known for her powerful Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1982) in Washington, D.C. Incorporating both industrial materials and altercations ...