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May 14, 2020 · Adhering to the competition rules that required the memorial to be apolitical and contain the names of all those confirmed dead and missing in action in the Vietnam War, Lin’s design called for ...
Lín Yīng. Maya Ying Lin (born October 5, 1959) is an American architect, designer and sculptor. Born in Athens, Ohio to Chinese immigrants, she attended Yale University to study architecture. In 1981, while still an undergraduate at Yale she achieved national recognition when she won a national design competition for the planned Vietnam ...
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Apr 3, 2024 · Vietnam Veterans Memorial, national monument in Washington, D.C., honouring members of the U.S. armed forces who served and died in the Vietnam War (1955–75). The memorial, located near the western end of the Mall , is a black granite V-shaped wall inscribed with the names of the approximately 58,000 men and women who were killed or missing ...
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Sep 13, 2017 · Jan C. Scruggs (L), President of the Vietnam Veteran’s Memorial Fund, and Project Director Bob Doubek (R) display the final design for the memorial, designed by Yale architecture student Maya ...
Maya Lin conceived her design as creating a park within a park — a quiet protected place unto itself, yet harmonious with the overall plan of Constitution Gardens. To achieve this effect she chose polished black granite for the walls. Its mirror-like surface reflects the images of the surrounding trees, lawns and monuments.
November 13, 1982. The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, commonly called the Vietnam Memorial, is a U.S. national memorial in Washington, D.C., honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War. The two-acre (8,100 m 2) site is dominated by two black granite walls engraved with the names of those service members who died ...
May 27, 2019 · In response, Scruggs and Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund he founded wanted something carved from that tragedy to live alongside the monuments on the National Mall. But a traditional totem for the dead simply wouldn’t have squared with our experience of the war, with its ground truth. So Maya Lin—brilliantly, empathetically, innocently ...
