Maya Lin Vietnam Veterans Memorial 1981 83 United States Granite

Two polished black granite walls chronologically listing 57 692 names of the dead form a great.

Maya lin vietnam veterans memorial 1981 83 united states granite.

The daughter of intellectuals who had fled china in 1948 lin received a bachelor s degree in 1981 from yale university in new haven. Out of the nearly fifteen hundred entries in the competition the eight jurors of the selection committee unanimously chose maya lin s design on may 6 1981. Lin s minimal plan was in sharp contrast to the traditional format for a memorial which usually included figurative heroic sculpture the design aroused a great deal of controversy. It honors service members of the u s.

Veterans search for the names of soldiers etched in granite on the vietnam veterans memorial. Maya lin s original competition submission for the vietnam veterans memorial in washington d c. National memorial in washington d c. A chinese american lin was born in ohio where her parents.

The vietnam veterans memorial is a 2 acre 8 000 m u s. Maya lin s vietnam veterans memorial 1980s in 1979 congress grants a vietnam war veterans committee the right to build a memorial on the mall in washington d c dedicated to american soldiers. Selected anonymously in 1981 from a competition with more than 1 400 entries the scheme possessed a brilliant clarity. Maya lin american architect and sculptor concerned with environmental themes who is best known for her design of the vietnam veterans memorial in washington d c.

As a senior at yale university lin entered a nationwide competition sponsored by the vietnam veterans memorial fund and her design was selected from the more than 1 400 submissions that were received. Armed forces who fought in the vietnam war service members who died in service in vietnam south east asia and those service members who were unaccounted for during the war. Room in may 1981 and informed the 21 year old that she had won the design and the 20 000 first. Architectural drawings and a one page written summary 1980 or 1981.