Maya Lin - wikipedia Maya Lin Maya Lin Lin at the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Washington ( 2007 ) Maya Lin ( 1959 - 10 - 05 ) October 5, 1959 ( age 58 ) Athens, Ohio, U.S. Nationality American Education Yale University Known for art, architecture, memorials Notable work Vietnam Veterans Memorial ( 1982 ) Civil Rights Memorial ( 1989 ) Spouse ( s ) Daniel Wolf Awards National Medal of Arts Presidential Medal of Freedom Website mayalin.com Maya Lin Traditional Chinese 林 瓔 Simplified Chinese 林 璎 show Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Lín Yīng Maya Ying Lin ( born October 5, 1959 ) is an American designer, architect, and artist who is known for her work in sculpture and land art. She achieved national recognition at the age of 21 while still an undergraduate at Yale University when her design was chosen in a national competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. It is considered one of the most influential memorials of the post-World War II period. Lin has completed designs for other memorials, as well as for numerous public and private buildings, landscape design, and sculpture. Although Lin 's most well known sculptures and architectural work are historical memorials, she also works to memorialize nature through her environmentally themed works. In creating works which deal with the depleting environment, Lin aims to raise awareness for the environment for audiences in urban spaces. Contents 1 Early life 2 Environmental concerns 3 Vietnam Veterans Memorial 4 Later work 5 Personal life 6 Recognition 7 Awards and honors 8 Selected works 9 Sources 10 References 11 External links Early life Maya Lin was born in Athens, Ohio. Her parents had migrated to the United States from China, her father in 1948 and her mother in 1949, and settled in Ohio before Maya was born. Her father, Henry Huan Lin, born in Fuzhou, Fujian, was a ceramist and former dean of the Ohio University College of Fine Arts. Her mother, Julia Chang Lin, born in Shanghai, is a poet and taught literature at Ohio University. She is the niece of Lin Huiyin, who is an American - educated artist, poet and said to be the first female architect in modern China. Lin Juemin and Lin Yin Ming, both of whom are among the 72 martyrs of the Second Guangzhou uprising, were cousins of her grandfather. Lin Chang - min, a Hanlin of Qing dynasty and the emperor 's teacher, was the father of Lin Hui - yin and great - grandfather of Maya Lin. Lin has an older brother, the poet Tan Lin. Growing up, she did not have many friends and stayed home a lot. She loved school and loved to study. When she was not studying, she took independent courses from Ohio University and spent her free time casting bronzes in the school foundry. Lin, having grown up as an Asian minority, has said that she `` did n't even realize '' she was Chinese until later in life. It was not until her 30s that she had a desire to understand her cultural background. Lin graduated from Yale University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1981 and a Master of Architecture degree in 1986. Environmental concerns Lin has stated that environmental issues have concerned her since she was very young, and she dedicated much of her time at Yale University to environmental activism. Much of her later work, after her work on memorials, focuses on the relationship that people have with their environment, which she displays in earthworks, sculptures, and installations. `` I 'm very much a product of the growing awareness about ecology and the environment al movement, '' Lin says. `` I am very drawn to landscape, and my work is about finding a balance in the landscape, respecting nature not trying to dominate it. Even the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is an earthwork. All of my work is about slipping things in, inserting an order or a structuring, yet making an interface so that in the end, rather than a hierarchy, there is a balance and tension between the man - made and the natural. '' Lin 's work centers on the concept of uncovering `` hidden histories '' to bring attention to landscapes and environments that may otherwise be inaccessible to viewers and `` deploys the concept to discuss the inextricable relationship between nature and the built environment. '' Lin 's focus on this relationship highlights the impact humanity has on the environment, and draws attention to her concerns such as global warming, endangered bodies of water, and animal extinction / endangerment. These issues are explored in what Lin calls her latest memorial, What Is Missing ?. Lin also sits on the Natural Resources Defense Council board of trustees. She constructs her works to have a minimal effect on the environment, utilizing recycled and sustainable materials, minimizes carbon emissions, and avoids damage to the landscapes / ecosystems she works upon. Vietnam Veterans Memorial Vietnam War Memorial original design submission by Maya Lin In 1981, at 21 and still an undergraduate, Lin won a public design competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, beating 1,421 other competition submissions. The black cut - stone masonry wall, with the names of 57,661 fallen soldiers carved into its face, was completed in late October 1982 and dedicated in November 1982. The wall is granite and V - shaped, with one side pointing to the Lincoln Memorial and the other to the Washington Monument. Lin 's conception was to create an opening or a wound in the earth to symbolize the gravity of the loss of the soldiers. The design was initially very controversial for several reasons. It was an unconventional and non-traditional design for a war memorial. Also controversial were Lin 's Asian ethnicity, and her lack of professional experience. The memorial has since become an important pilgrimage site for relatives and friends of the American military casualties in Vietnam, and personal tokens and mementos are left at the wall daily in the casualties ' memory. In 2007, the American Institute of Architects ranked the memorial No. 10 on their list of America 's Favorite Architecture. Lin believes that if the competition had not been `` blind, '' with designs submitted by name instead of number, she `` never would have won. '' She received harassment after her ethnicity was revealed. Prominent businessman and later third party presidential candidate Ross Perot called her an `` egg roll '' after it was revealed that she was Asian. Lin defended her design in front of the US Congress, and eventually, a compromise was reached. The Three Soldiers, a bronze statue of a group of soldiers and an American flag, was placed off to one side of her design. However, the artist 's architectural design was controversial due to particular aspects, such as the exclusion of the surviving veterans ' names as well as the dark complexion of the granite. Many argue that the memorial only honors the soldiers who lost their lives during the Vietnam War, and others believe that the color of the granite resembles disgust and sadness towards this specific war. Yet, a 50 - foot - high flagpole and an 8 - foot - high statue of three soldiers were added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to appease any external pressures. Later work Sculpture made of multiple wood 2x4 pieces, on display at the De Young Museum in San Francisco ( 2009 ) Maya Lin 's `` Women 's Table '' in front of the Sterling Memorial Library that commemorates the role of women at Yale University Maya Lin calls herself a `` designer, '' rather than an `` architect. '' Her vision and her focus are always on how space needs to be in the future, the balance and relationship with the nature and what it means to people. She has tried to focus less on how politics influences design and more on what emotions the space would create and what it would symbolize to the user. Her belief in a space being connected and the transition from inside to outside being fluid, coupled with what a space means, has led her to create some very memorable designs. She has also worked on sculptures and landscape installations. In doing so, Lin focuses on memorializing concepts of time periods instead of direct representations of figures, creating an abstract sculptures and installations. Lin believes that art should be an act of every individual that is willing to say something that is new and not quite familiar. Lin describes her creative process as having a very important writing and verbal component. She first imagines an artwork verbally to understand its concepts and meanings. She believes that gathering ideas and information is especially vital in architecture, which focuses on humanity and life and requires a well - rounded mind. When a project comes her way, she tries to `` understand the definition ( of the site ) in a verbal before finding the form to understand what a piece is conceptually and what its nature should be even before visiting the site. '' In her historical memorials, such as the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the Women 's Table, and the Civil Rights Memorial, Lin tries to focus on the chronological aspect of what she is memorializing. That theme is shown in her art memorializing the changing environment and in charting the depletion of bodies of water. Lin also explores themes of juxtaposing materials and a fusion of opposites : `` I feel I exist on the boundaries. Somewhere between science and art, art and architecture, public and private, east and west... I am always trying to find a balance between these opposing forces, finding the place where opposites meet... existing not on either side but on the line that divides. '' Lin, who now owns and operates Maya Lin Studio in New York City, has designed numerous projects, including the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama ( 1989 ) and the Wave Field outdoor installation at the University of Michigan ( 1995 ). In 1995, Lin completed Wave Field, at the University of Michigan. Lin was inspired by both diagrams of fluids in motion and photographs of ocean waves. She was intrigued by the idea of capturing and freezing the motion of water, and she wished to capture that movement in the earth, rather than through photography. That was her first experience with earthworks. In 1999, Lin exhibited Il Cortile Mare ( 1998 ) of furniture design, maquettes and photos of works at the American Academy in Rome. In 2000, Lin re-emerged in the public life with a book, Boundaries. Also in 2000, she agreed to act as the artist and architect for the Confluence Project, a series of outdoor installations at historical points along the Columbia River and Snake River in the states of Washington and Oregon. It is the largest and longest project that she has undertaken so far. In 2004, Lin completed an earthwork, Eleven Minute Line, in Sweden that was designed for the Wanås Foundation. Lin draws inspiration from the Serpent Mounds ( Native American burial mounds ) located in her home state, Ohio. It is meant to be a walkway for the viewers to experience, taking eleven minutes to complete. The earthwork is also inspired by Robert Smithson 's Spiral Jetty. In 2005, she designed the new plaza that anchors the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine. In 2006, Lin completed Waterline, which is composed of aluminum tubing and paint. She describes the piece as a drawing instead of a sculpture. It is a to - scale representation of the Mid-Atlantic ridge, and it is installed so that viewers may walk under the underwater mountain range. There is a purposeful ambiguity to where the actual water line is in relation to the mountain range, to highlight viewers ' relationship to the environment and their effect on bodies of water. Also in 2006, Lin completed her Bodies of Water series, which included representations of three bodies of water, `` The Black Sea, '' `` The Caspian Sea, '' and `` The Red Sea. '' Each sculpture is made of layers of birch plywood, and are to - scale representations of three endangered bodies of water. The sculptures are balanced on the deepest point of the sea. Lin wishes to call attention to the `` unseen ecosystems '' that people continue to pollute. Lin was commissioned by Ohio University to design what is known as Input in that institution 's Bicentennial Park, a landscape designed to resemble a computer punch card. The work relates to Lin 's first official connection with the university. The daughter of the late Professor Emerita of English Julia Lin and the late Henry Lin, dean emeritus of the College of Fine Arts, Maya Lin studied computer programming at the university while in high school. The installation is located in a 3.5 - acre park. It has 21 rectangles, some raised and some depressed, resembling computer punch cards, a mainstay of early programming courses. In 2007, Lin installed Above and Below, an outdoor sculpture at the Indianapolis Museum of Art in Indiana. The artwork is made of aluminum tubing that has been electrolytically colored during a process called anodization. In 2008, Lin completed a 30 - ton sculpture called 2 × 4 Landscape, made of many pieces of wood, which was exhibited at the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, in San Francisco. The sculpture itself is evocative of the swelling movement of water, which is juxtaposed with the dry materiality of the lumber pieces. According to Lin, 2 × 4 Landscape was her attempt to bring the experience of Wavefield ( 1995 ) indoors. The 2 × 4 pieces are also meant to be reminiscent of pixels, to evoke the `` virtual or digital space that we are increasingly occupying. '' In 2008, her projects included an installation, called Wave Field, at the Storm King Art Center in Upstate New York, near the Catskills. It is the center 's first earthwork, spanning 4 acres of land, and is a larger version of her original Wave Field ( 1995 ) that focuses on the `` fusion of opposites, '' comparing the motion of water to the material of the earth. In 2009 Lin created the design of a building for the Museum of Chinese in America near New York City 's Chinatown, Lin attached a personal significance to the project being a Chinese - related project, explaining that she wants her two daughters to `` know that part of their heritage ''. That same year, Lin completed Silver River, her first work of art in the Las Vegas Strip. It is part of a public fine art collection at MGM Mirage 's CityCenter, which opened December 2009. Lin created an 84 - foot ( 26 m ) cast of the Colorado River made entirely of reclaimed silver. With the sculpture, Lin wanted to make a statement about water conservation and the importance of the Colorado River to Nevada in terms of energy and water. The sculpture is displayed behind the front desk of the Aria Resort and Casino. In 2013, Lin completed her largest work to date, A Fold in the Field. It was built from 105,000 m cubic meters of earth, covering 3 hectares. It forms part of a private collection within a sculpture park, owned by Alan Gibbs, north of Auckland, New Zealand. Since around 2010, Lin has been working on what she calls `` her final memorial, '' the What Is Missing ? Foundation, to commemorate the biodiversity that has been lost in the planet 's sixth mass extinction. She aims to raise awareness about the loss of biodiversity and natural habitats by using sound, media, science, and art for temporary installations and a web - based project. What Is Missing ? exists not in one specific site but in many forms and in many places simultaneously. Both What is Missing and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial were referred to by the White House in its press release that announced Lin as one of the 2016 recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Nature and the environment have been central concerns for Lin in both her art and architecture : `` As an artist I often work in series, and so for me, I wanted my last memorial to be on a subject that I have personally been concerned with and connected to since I was a child. The last memorial is `` What Is Missing ? '' And encompasses multiple platforms, with temporary and permanent physical installations as well as an interactive online component. '' She has expressed her concerns for the goals of the Trump administration : `` I think nature is resilient -- if we protect it -- and with my background I wanted to lend a voice to the incredible threat we are under from climate change and species and habitat loss. '' Lin is represented by the Pace Gallery in New York City. Personal life Lin is married to Daniel Wolf, a New York photography dealer. They have two daughters, India and Rachel. She also has an older brother, who is a poet. Recognition Lin has been awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Yale University, Harvard University, Williams College, and Smith College. In 1987 she was among the youngest to be awarded an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts by Yale University. In 1994, she was the subject of the Academy Award - winning documentary Maya Lin : A Strong Clear Vision. Its title comes from an address she gave at Juniata College in which she spoke of the monument design process in the origin of her work ; `` My work originates from a simple desire to make people aware of their surroundings and this can include not just the physical but the psychological world that we live in. '' In 2002, Lin was elected Alumni Fellow of the Yale Corporation, the governing body of Yale University ( upon whose campus sits another of Lin 's designs, the Women 's Table, designed to commemorate the role of women at Yale University ), in an unusually public contest. Her opponent was W. David Lee, a local New Haven minister and graduate of the Yale Divinity School, who was running on a platform to build ties to the community with the support of Yale 's unionized employees. Lin was supported by Yale President Richard Levin and other members of the Yale Corporation, and she was the officially endorsed candidate of the Association of Yale Alumni. In 2003, Lin was chosen to serve on the selection jury of the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition. A trend toward minimalism and abstraction was noted among the entrants and the finalists as well as in the chosen design for the World Trade Center Memorial. In 2005, Lin was elected to The American Academy of Arts and Letters, as well as the National Women 's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York. In 2009, Lin was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Barack Obama. Awards and honors This list is incomplete ; you can help by expanding it. 1999 : Rome Prize 2000 : Golden Plate Award Academy of Achievement 2003 : Finn Juhl Prize 2005 : elected to The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 : elected to National Women 's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York 2007 : AIA Twenty - five Year Award 2009 : National Medal of Arts 2014 : Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, a $300,000 art prize 2016 : Presidential Medal of Freedom Selected works Vietnam Veterans Memorial ( VVM ) ( 1980 -- 82 ), Washington, D.C. Aligning Reeds ( 1985 ), New Haven, Connecticut Civil Rights Memorial ( 1988 -- 89 ), Montgomery, Alabama Open - Air Peace Chapel ( 1988 -- 89 ), Juniata College, Huntingdon, Pennsylvania Topo ( 1989 -- 91 ), Charlotte Sports Coliseum, Charlotte, North Carolina Eclipsed Time ( 1989 -- 95 ), Pennsylvania Station, New York City Women 's Table ( 1990 -- 93 ), Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Weber House ( 1991 -- 93 ), Williamstown, Massachusetts Groundswell ( 1992 -- 93 ), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio Museum for African Art ( 1992 -- 93 ), New York City. Wave Field ( 1993 -- 95 ), FXB Aerospace Engineering Building, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 10 Degrees North ( 1993 -- 96 ), Rockefeller Foundation Headquarters, New York City A Shift in the Stream ( 1995 -- 97 ), Principal Financial Group Headquarters, Des Moines, Iowa Reading a Garden ( 1996 -- 98 ), Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, Ohio Private Duplex Apartment, New York City ( 1996 -- 98 ), New York Topographic Landscape ( 1997 ) ( Portable sculpture ) Phases of the Moon ( 1998 ) ( Portable sculpture ) Avalanche ( 1998 ) ( Portable sculpture ) Langston Hughes Library ( 1999 ), Clinton, Tennessee Timetable ( 2000 ), Stanford University, Stanford, California The character of a hill, under glass ( 2000 -- 01 ), American Express Client Services Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Ecliptic ( 2001 ), Grand Rapids, Michigan Input ( 2004 ), Bicentennial Park, Athens, Ohio Riggio - Lynch Chapel ( 2004 ), Clinton, Tennessee Arts Plaza, Claire Trevor School of the Arts ( 2005 ), Irvine, California Confluence Project : Cape Disappointment State Park ( 2006 ) Confluence Project : Vancouver Land Bridge ( 2008 ) Confluence Project : Sandy River Delta ( 2008 ) Confluence Project : Sacajawea State Park ( 2010 ) Ellen S. Clark Hope Plaza, Washington University in St. Louis ( 2010 ) Confluence Project : Chief Timothy Park ( 2011 ) A Fold in the Field ( 2013 ), The Gibbs Farm, Kaipara Harbour, New Zealand `` What is Missing ? ( 2009 -- present ), ( Various locations, web project ) Under the Laurentide, Brown University ( 2015 ) Folding the Chesapeake ( part of Wonder exhibit ) : Renwick Gallery, Washington, DC ( 2015 ) Sources Maya Lin : Topologies ( Artist and the community ) ( 1998 ) ISBN 1 - 888826 - 05 - 3 Maya Lin : ( American Academy in Rome, 10 dicembre 1998 - 21 febbraio 1999 ) ( 1998 ) ISBN 88 - 435 - 6832 - 9 Timetable : Maya Lin ( 2000 ) ASIN B000PT331Y ( 2002, ISBN 0 - 937031 - 19 - 4 ) Boundaries ( 2000 ) ISBN 0 - 684 - 83417 - 0 ( 2006, ISBN 0 - 7432 - 9959 - 0 ) Landscape Architecture ( 2 / 2007 ) Page 110 - 115, by Susan Hines References ^ Jump up to : Rothstein, Edward. `` Maya Lin ''. The New York Times. 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'' `` Between Art and Architecture : The Memory Works of Maya Lin ''. American Association of Museums. July -- August 2008. Retrieved October 27, 2011. ^ Jump up to : `` Maya Lin : A Strong Clear Vision ''. IMDb. Jump up ^ Campbell, Robert ( November 30, 2000 ). `` Rock, Paper, Vision Artist and Architect Maya Lin Goes Beyond her Powerful Vietnam Veterans Memorial ''. Boston Globe. Retrieved March 7, 2015. Jump up ^ TenBrink, Marisa. `` Maya Lin 's Environmental Installations : Bringing the Outside In, '' 2 Jump up ^ Deitsch, Dina. `` Maya Lin 's Perpetual Landscapes and Storm King Wavefield. '' Woman 's Art Journal 30, no. 1 ( 2009 ) : 4. Jump up ^ Art : 21. Maya Lin 's `` Wave Field '' PBS. Pbs.org. Retrieved April 25, 2012. Jump up ^ Deitsch, Dina. `` Maya Lin 's Perpetual Landscapes and Storm King Wavefield. '' Woman 's Art Journal 30, no. 1 ( 2009 ), 6 Jump up ^ R.J. Preece. ( 1999 ) `` Maya Lin at American Academy, Rome ''. World Sculpture News / artdesigncafe. 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The 11 - acre installation, which will open to the public next spring, consists of seven rows of undulating hills cradled in a gently sloping valley. Jump up ^ Cotter, Holland ( May 7, 2009 ). `` Art Review ' Storm King Wavefield ' : Where the Ocean Meets the Catskills ''. The New York Times. Retrieved May 8, 2009. Jump up ^ Deitsch, Dina. `` Maya Lin 's Perpetual Landscapes and Storm King Wavefield. '' Woman 's Art Journal 30, no. 1 ( 2009 ), 3 Jump up ^ Friess, Steve ( December 16, 2009 ). `` Artist Maya Lin Provides ' Silver River ' for Vegas ' CityCenter Megaresort ''. Sphere News. Retrieved January 1, 2010. Jump up ^ http://www.gibbsfarm.org.nz/lin.php Jump up ^ `` About the Project ''. What Is Missing ?. Retrieved March 7, 2015. Jump up ^ Reed, Amanda. `` What Is Missing ? : Maya Lin 's Memorial on the Sixth Extinction ''. World Changing. Archived from the original on January 20, 2015. 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Buck Rachel Carson Mary Cassatt Emily Dickinson Amelia Earhart Alice Hamilton Helen Hayes Helen Keller Eleanor Roosevelt Florence Sabin Margaret Chase Smith Elizabeth Cady Stanton Helen Brooke Taussig Harriet Tubman 1976 Abigail Adams Margaret Mead Mildred `` Babe '' Didrikson Zaharias 1979 Dorothea Dix Juliette Gordon Low Alice Paul Elizabeth Bayley Seton 1980 -- 1989 1981 Margaret Sanger Sojourner Truth 1982 Carrie Chapman Catt Frances Perkins Belva Lockwood Lucretia Mott 1984 Mary `` Mother '' Harris Jones Bessie Smith 1986 Barbara McClintock Lucy Stone Harriet Beecher Stowe 1988 Gwendolyn Brooks Willa Cather Sally Ride Ida B. Wells - Barnett 1990 -- 1999 1990 Margaret Bourke - White Barbara Jordan Billie Jean King Florence B. Seibert 1991 Gertrude Belle Elion 1993 Ethel Percy Andrus Antoinette Blackwell Emily Blackwell Shirley Chisholm Jacqueline Cochran Ruth Colvin Marian Wright Edelman Alice Evans Betty Friedan Ella Grasso Martha Wright Griffiths Fannie Lou Hamer Dorothy Height Dolores Huerta Mary Jacobi Mae Jemison Mary Lyon Mary Mahoney Wilma Mankiller Constance Baker Motley Georgia O'Keeffe Annie Oakley Rosa Parks Esther Peterson Jeannette Rankin Ellen Swallow Richards Elaine Roulet Katherine Siva Saubel Gloria Steinem Helen Stephens Lillian Wald Madam C.J. Walker Faye Wattleton Rosalyn S. 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Question: who designed the veterans memorial in washington dc
Answer: Maya Ying Lin