In 1979, Congress grants a Vietnam War veterans' committee the right to build a memorial on the Mall in ... than the student architect herself, Maya Lin, a 20-year-old Yale undergraduate.

When I won the competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, it was anonymous. You were a number. I was 1026. To this day I have to wonder, had my name been out there, would that have made ...

It was his job to go to the dedication despite his misgivings with the design by Maya Lin, a 21-year-old ... flags sit at the base of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington on Nov. 11 ...

In 1979, Congress grants a Vietnam War veterans' committee the right to build a memorial on the Mall in ... than the student architect herself, Maya Lin, a 20-year-old Yale undergraduate.

Maya Lin is a contemporary Asian-American artist and architect best known for her powerful Vietnam Veterans Memorial (1982) in Washington, D.C. Incorporating both industrial materials and altercations ...