Who designed the winning entry?
Maya Lin, born in Athens, Ohio in 1959, designed The Wall as an undergraduate at Yale University for a funerary architecture class. She has since gone on to design many marvelous works of art which, like The Wall, are abstract and contemplative in nature. Lin has designed the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama and the Wave Field at the University of Michigan. An Oscar-winning documentary entitled “Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision” was made about her in 1995.
