Maya Lin broke barriers as an architect for the historic Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Lin created an abstract, apolitical monument that drew attention to individual sacrifices honoring service members of the U.S. armed forces who served in the Vietnam War.

Maya’s story of how she was chosen as the architect for the memorial is best summarized by her quote: “Coincidentally a few weeks before I submitted the design one of my professors, Vincent Scully, described one of the World War I memorials. In his description he talked about it as a journey towards an awareness of loss. I realized how close the experience he described was to my design for the Vietnam memorial—though formally they couldn’t have been more different. And I started writing about my design while still in his class; I hand wrote that essay directly onto the competition boards (you can still see typos) and sent in the project.”

In 2009 she won the National Medal of Arts, the nation’s highest honor for artistic excellence. In 2016 she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by President Barack Obama, the Nation’s highest Civilian Honor.
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