Who is Maya Lin?
When she was only 21 years old, Maya Lin won the competition to design a Vietnam Veterans Memorial for Washington, D.C. Out of 1,400 designs by professional architects, designers, and artists, Lin’s design was chosen, and she was still in college at the time. Amidst controversy and instant fame, she has continued on to design other memorials, buildings, sculptures, and furniture, always showing her creative and original side. Maya Lin was born in 1959 in Athens, Ohio, the daughter of Chinese immigrants who met in the United States. Both parents were professors, her father a professor of ceramics, and her mother a professor of literature. A passion for art ran in Maya Lin’s family, with her brother Tan becoming a poet and professor. Lin decided to pursue an education in both art and architecture, combining the two fields along with history and the environment. While studying architecture at Yale University, Maya Lin and her classmates heard about the contest to design a memorial in hono
