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Maya Lin has worked on art and architectural projects throughout the United States. Since setting up her studio in 1987, Lin has created both public and private artworks, including the Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1982) in Washington, D.C.; the Civil Rights Memorial (1989) in Montgomery, Alabama; and the Langston Hughes Library (1999) in Clinton, Tennessee, among others. Her work has been highly acclaimed; a documentary about her work, Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision, won an Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1995. Born in Athens, Ohio, and educated at Yale University, she lives with her family in New York City.

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Architect Magazine, February 3, 2012
...Here are some photos of the Riggio-Lynch Interfaith Chapel at CDF Haley Farm in Clinton, Tennessee by Maya Lin Studio with Bialosky + Partners, 2004. Photographs are by ken mccown. To contribute your Flickr images for consideration, just: :: Join and add...
Newsvine, January 5, 2012
...newsvine.com/_news/2008/12/24/2244413-reviewed-lars-and-the-real-girl The Life Aquatic - http://sbutki.newsvine.com/_news/2007/03/06/601219-movie-review-the-life-aquatic-with-steve-zissou Little Miss Sunshine -...
ArtInfo, November 29, 2011
...debate has broken out over a minimalist memorial to philanthropist Doris Duke in Newport, R.I. designed by Maya Lin. “The fight has taken on the intensity of a debate over the soul of Newport itself, a city that — largely because of the efforts and...
The L Magazine, November 29, 2011
...For him, then, post-war art can be seen as "a dialectic between Pop and Minimalism." Asked about Maya Lin's Vietnam War Memorial, Foster acknowledged it as a good example of the "convergence of Minimalism and architecture," of minimalists moving into...
Harvard Crimson, November 18, 2011
...touch. 2. The Women’s Table Harvard students always appreciate a good sculpture. This installation, designed by architect Maya Lin, sits by Yale’s Sterling Memorial Library. By day, the engraved stone commemorates women in the school’s history. By...
Guardian.co.uk, November 11, 2011
...The Submission In 2003, during a conversation about Maya Lin, the Asian-American who won an anonymous competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, I wondered what would happen if an American Muslim won a similar competition for 9/11? Three...
Daily Princetonian, October 5, 2011
...Architect Maya Lin presented a lecture discussing her past and present projects at Richardson Auditorium on Tuesday. Lin is most well known for designing the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C...
OUPblog, September 30, 2011
...have developed an architectural vocabulary for memorializing controversial or shameful aspects of history. The preeminent example again is Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial, which was initially criticized for violating traditional ideas of what a...
The Young Mommy Life, June 28, 2011
...  A Letter to My Daughters – everyone from Albert Einstein to Billie Holiday, from Helen Keller to Maya Lin, from Martin Luther King, Jr. to George Washington, and even more.   A perfectly fitting line from the book: “Have I told you to be proud...
ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed, May 23, 2011
...hundreds of signed replicas of the piece at $750 a pop. We'd all recoil in horror if Maya Lin tried the same thing with the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial, but I'm almost tempted to give Van Hoeydonck a pass. After all, the Fallen Astronaut itself is just...
OUPblog, May 16, 2011
...let nobody turn us ’round.” Once we arrived in Montgomery, we toured the Civil Rights Memorial designed by Maya Lin and we all put our hands in the ceremonial water that rolls over the inscribed names of movement martyrs. Then we entered the...
LISNews:, May 4, 2011
...bear to the J.D. Salinger letters. The luminaries include NFL player Justin Tuck, comedian Stephen Colbert, architect Maya Lin, writer Jonathan Franzen, soprano Renée Fleming, humorist Roy Blunt, Jr., actor and author John Lithgow, choreographer Bill T....