Topic: Maya Lin
No war in American history was more controversial than the Vietnam War . Maya Lin originally designed the memorial not for the monument competition, but for a class she was attending at Yale University . In fact, Maya Lin did not even know much ...
When she was only 21 years old, Maya Lin won the competition to design a Vietnam Veterans Memorial for Washington, D.C. While studying architecture at Yale University, Maya Lin and her classmates heard about the contest to design a memorial in ...
A heated discussion has been brewing in the ARE Forum, where a couple members declared that Maya Lin isn't an architect. Was Andrea Palladio, who lived long before the age of professional licensing, a real architect? How about Frank Lloyd Wright ...
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bankrupt financial group Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc plans to sell about 450 works by contemporary artists including Robert Rauschenberg at an auction in September, according to court documents.Lehman, which filed for bankruptcy in September 2008, has asked the ...
Seems like yesterday, but it's been more than a quarter century since student architect Maya Ying Lin stunned the country with her plan for a 250-foot long black granite wall to honor veterans of the Vietnam War. Groundbreaking for the Vietnam ...
Maya Lin is best known as the winning designer chosen for the National Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Washington, DC. A contemporary artist, architect and environmentalist, Maya Lin has continued to possess a strong interest in the environment. At the University of Michigan ...
Artist Lin attends installation of sculpture designed to provoke thought about water Artist Maya Lin watches as her 87-foot renditon of the Colorado River is installed behind the registration desk at CityCenters Aria.The sculpture, Silver River, weighs 3,700 pounds, hangs ...
Near the wind- and water-swept expanse of a park on the coast of Washington State, energy born in distant storms rises out of the seas to break against the bar of one of the great rivers of North America, the Columbia. "It ...
In Venice, on the square in front of the grand Dominican Church of Saints John and Paul (Zannipoli, in the Venetian dialect), stands a colossal bronze statue of a 15th-century military leader, Bartolomeo Colleoni, a mercenary who led the republic's land ...
Oct. 5, 1959, Athens, Ohio, U.S.), American architect and sculptor concerned with environmental themes who is best known for her design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.. After Lin's monument was dedicated on the Mall in Washington ...