Maya Lin

The talents of Maya Lin in the field of visual arts and the built environment know no boundaries. Early on in her career, she was already able to break down the stereotypes of how architectural public spaces should be. To date, Maya Lin continues to explore different aspects of visual representation through design, architecture, sculpture, crafts and design philosophy. Maya Lin was born on October 5, 1959, in Athens, Ohio to Chinese migrant parents. Artistry, creative and deep thinking runs in the family. Her father worked with ceramics and was also a former dean of the Fine Arts department of Ohio University. Her mother was a poet and taught literature in the same university. Maya was also the niece of Lin Huiyin, who was claimed to be the…

Maya Lin is an American architect and sculptor best known for her design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Maya Lin was received her bachelor's degree from Yale, where she studied architecture and sculpture. During her senior year she won a nationwide competition to create a design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Her minimalist design aroused controversy but has become very popular with the public over the years. Born on October 5, 1959, in Athens, Ohio, Maya Lin is the…

Maya Lin is an American designer, artist, and architect, most known for her historic memorials. One of her goals in design is to focus on elements and demonstrate naturally occurring phenomena’s in nature which can even be seen right here in Grand Rapids at Rosa Park Circle. Using water as her inspiration for the park, she demonstrates each form that it takes right here in Michigan. Her designs have an incredible ability to encourage people to gather together in open spaces while teaching them…

When Maya Lin was designing her memorial in Washington, D.C., she wanted to build it in a park but didn’t want to interfere with nature by destroying the park. So she cooperated with the surrounding environment by designing her memorial that would work with the land, not to “fight or dominate it” (Source G). Protesters also opposed the location of the Holocaust museum when it was first publicized that it would be built in the United States because they “did little to stop the Holocaust from…

Introduction to Maya Deren Maya Deren is one of the prominent figures in American experimental filmmaking, who is celebrated as a ‘legend’ and the “Mother of Avant-Garde” (Hornung 2005, p. 280; Pramaggiore 1997, p. 17). Maya Deren was born Eleanora Derenkowsky into a family of prominent educated Russian Jews in 1917, in Kiev, during the birth of the Revolution (Doneson n.d., p. 327; Fabe 1996, p. 146; McPherson 2005, p. 8). She was the only child of Solomon David Derenkowsky, a psychiatrist…

There are many factors that go into creating a monument. The key factors of a monument are the environment and materials, and no why other factors are not key ones will be explained. The environment is a very important factor. The monument has to blend with the environment. For example, if the monument is about an awesome person with great power, then the monument should stand tall over the environment. In "Making the Memorial", the designer of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Maya Lin, states…

Maya Lin is an incredible artist. Hearing her speak only further helped me understand and appreciate her work. She puts so much of her heart and soul into her work and genuinely thinks through each aspect of each piece and how she can better express her thoughts through this art, so that these thoughts can be recognized better and more easily, as well as assumed and agreed with. I was also able to learn that she felt that drawings wouldn’t have been able to describe or interpret the idea for the…

properly honored until ten years after the war. In 1980, a competition was held to design a memorial to honor all of those who died or went missing during the harsh, foreign war. The winner of the design contest was a twenty-one year old young woman, named Maya Ying…

Maya Lin once stated “Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it’s not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.” Lin has created magnificent pieces of work through her ideas which are shown through her famous pieces of work of architecture. Her simplicity that lies within her is shown through her architectural works as they are very natural and simplistic. The beauty lies in both the creativity and content of her work. Famous works of hers include: The Last Memorial (2009),…

According to Marita Sturken, the original veterans chose to have it placed in the Constitutional Gardens, located in capital of the United States (46) and Lin chose to have it exist beneath the surface. Additionally, the texture of the monument invites the viewer to physically touch and make personal marks on its surface (47). These artistic decisions help to create and strengthen attitude of reflection within the viewer, which was the artist’s original intention, and might not have been…