This object was derided as "a nihilistic slab" when its design was released to the public, and outrage over its color, among other issues, led to a compromise in which a flagpole and a bronze statue by Frederick Hart were added to its layout.
This object was derided as "a nihilistic slab" when its design was released to the public, and outrage over its color, among other issues, led to a compromise in which a flagpole and a bronze statue by Frederick Hart were added to its layout. An open competition for its design was won by a twenty- one-year-old Yale architecture student, and it comprises two seventy-five meter-long walls made of black gabbro. Maya Lin is the architect of, for 10  points, what monument in Washington, D.C. on which the names of over fifty- eight thousand U.S. soldiers are engraved?
This object was derided as "a nihilistic slab" when its design was released to the public, and outrage over its color, among other issues, led to a compromise in which a flagpole and a bronze statue by Frederick Hart were added to its layout.
Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial [or Vietnam Wall; accept anything involving Vietnam]