Happy Birthday, Maya Lin

Architect Maya Ying Lin was born on October 5, 1959. Maya Lin was still an architecture student at Yale University when she entered a national design competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial to be built in Washington D.C. Her entry was chosen over 1,421 others. Maya Lin was only twenty-one years old. Today Maya Lin is known for her innovative landscape installations.

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