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Maya LinArchitect / Artist
Born: 5 October 1959 Birthplace: Athens, Ohio Best known as: Designer of the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C. Name at birth: Maya Ying Lin Maya Lin was still an undergraduate at Yale University when she won the national design competition for a Vietnam War veterans memorial to be built near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Amid controversy over her untraditional design (and, remarkably, complaints that it had been created by a young woman of Chinese descent), the memorial was completed in 1982. It became the most visited monument in Washington, D.C. Maya Lin has gone on to design other memorials, landscape sculptures and private residences. Extra credit: The film Maya Lin: A Strong, Clear Vision won the 1995 Oscar for best feature documentary. Copyright © 1998-2006 by Who2?, LLC. All rights reserved. More on Maya Lin from Infoplease:
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