If you've been to Washington DC, you have probably seen the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. If you've been to Atlanta, you may have seen the Did you know that the architect of this monument was only 21 when she designed it? In her senior year at Yale University, Maya Lin entered a competition for a Vietnam Veterans Memorial to be built in Washington, D.C.
Maya was born in 1959 in Athens, Ohio to parents who fled China just before the 1949 Communist Revolution. Her mother was a poet and her father was a ceramicist and they both taught at Ohio University.
She was always strong in math and entertained herself by building miniature towns. She has described herself as a nerd, an outsider, and a loner. While she was at Yale, she was working on a class project which eventually became her submission into the competition. In 1981, her entry was chosen out of 1,421 entries.
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