Maya Lin Vietnam Veterans Memorial 1981 83 United States Granite

The daughter of intellectuals who had fled china in 1948 lin received a bachelor s degree in 1981 from yale university in new haven.

Maya lin vietnam veterans memorial 1981 83 united states granite.

Maya lin s original competition submission for the vietnam veterans memorial in washington d c. Armed forces who fought in the vietnam war service members who died in service in vietnam south east asia and those service members who were unaccounted for during the war. Lin s minimal plan was in sharp contrast to the traditional format for a memorial which usually included figurative heroic sculpture the design aroused a great deal of controversy. Veterans search for the names of soldiers etched in granite on the vietnam veterans memorial.

Maya lin s vietnam veterans memorial 1980s in 1979 congress grants a vietnam war veterans committee the right to build a memorial on the mall in washington d c dedicated to american soldiers. It honors service members of the u s. As a senior at yale university lin entered a nationwide competition sponsored by the vietnam veterans memorial fund and her design was selected from the more than 1 400 submissions that were received. Maya lin was still an undergraduate at yale university when she beat out over 1 400 competitors in a competition to design the memorial.

National memorial in washington d c. Two polished black granite walls chronologically listing 57 692 names of the dead form a great. The vietnam veterans memorial is a 2 acre 8 000 m u s. Maya lin american architect and sculptor concerned with environmental themes who is best known for her design of the vietnam veterans memorial in washington d c.

Room in may 1981 and informed the 21 year old that she had won the design and the 20 000 first. Selected anonymously in 1981 from a competition with more than 1 400 entries the scheme possessed a brilliant clarity. Architectural drawings and a one page written summary 1980 or 1981. Out of the nearly fifteen hundred entries in the competition the eight jurors of the selection committee unanimously chose maya lin s design on may 6 1981.