Maya Lin had an early start. Lin’s design has become so celebrated that it’s easy to forget how young she was when she first proposed it. The national contest to design a Vietnam memorial drew ...

Lin won a national contest to design the Vietnam memorial in 1981 when she was a 21-year-old senior at Yale University. Lin designed the memorial as part of a class project.

The designer and artist, best known for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, reflects on the "space and time" needed to commemorate difficult events. Ridgewood cut fourth-round affordable housing ...

NARRATOR: Eventually, the design for the memorial was amended, and three soldiers were added. But on its opening in 1982, the strength of the original design became evident.

The once-controversial Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, designed by Maya Lin, will receive the Twenty-five Year Award from The American Institute of Architects, bestowed on a design that ...

Lin won a national contest to design the Vietnam memorial in 1981 when she was a 21-year-old senior at Yale University. Lin designed the memorial as part of a class project.

Lin won a national contest to design the Vietnam memorial in 1981 when she was a 21-year-old senior at Yale University. Lin designed the memorial as part of a class project.

Maya Lin was a 21-year old- senior at Yale University in New Haven, in 1981, when she submitted the winning design in a national competition for a memorial to be built in Washington, D.C.

Architect Maya Lin, who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., will speak at Oberlin College's Finney Chapel Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

WASHINGTON -- A design panel gave its blessing Thursday to an underground visitors center and exhibit space to accompany the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on a grassy patch of the National Mall. The ...

While many veterans saw the black V design as dignified, others thought it resembled a ditch or gravestone—a condemnation of the war. Early backers of the memorial—including billionaire Ross Perot and ...