Escaping From the Shadow of the 'Wall'

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by innes | January 24, 2007 at 09:16 am
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Maya Lin designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial 25 years ago—she's spent the time since then proving she's no one-hit wonder.
Jan. 23, 2007 - Next month, the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial, the most-visited monument in Washington, D.C., will
be honored with the 25-Year-Award from the American Institute of
Architects, as the most significant structure completed a quarter
century ago. The memorial’s stunning abstract design radically changed
the conventional view of war monuments, and it has had a profound
impact on memorial design ever since. Yet when the design was first
selected, after a blind competition with more than 1,400 entries, it
was considered astonishing—even controversial in some quarters—in part
because its designer wasn’t a well-known architect or artist but a
21-year-old Yale undergraduate named Maya Lin. NEWSWEEK’S Cathleen
McGuigan caught up with Lin, now 47, in New York, where she’s been
working for more than 20 years on projects ranging from art—both
outdoor earthworks and gallery installations—to architecture, furniture
and books.

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tigersharky80
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at 21:18 on January 28th, 2007

I want to make clear this is a photo of the traveling Vietnam Memorial, it was in Davenport, Iowa and I took the photo in high school.

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