Oral history interview with Maya Ying Lin
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 2 digital wav files. Duration is 1 hr., 34 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Lin, Maya Ying
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
label: Names
content: Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund
topic: label: Occupation
content: Architects -- New York (State) -- New York
label: Topic
content: Vietnam Veterans Memorial (Washington, D.C.)
label: Topic
content: Women artists
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content: Asian American art
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content: Asian American artists
label: Topic
content: Chinese American art
label: Topic
content: Chinese American artists
label: Topic
content: Women architects
label: Topic
content: Asian American architects
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Lin, Maya Ying
label: Interviewer
content: Brown, Robert F.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Maya Ying Lin (1959- ) is a Chinese American architect based in New York, N.Y.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 42 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1983 March 6
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.lin83
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Maya Ying Lin conducted 1983 Mar. 6, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art. Lin speaks of a funerary architecture seminar she took at Yale University; entering her design in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund's competition; attempts to add a figured sculpture and a flagpole to her design, and her resistance to this effort.