More From Maya Lin
- "When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they’ be censored. We were a very insular little family."
- "I really enjoyed hanging out with some of the teachers. This one chemistry teacher, she liked hanging out. I liked making explosives. We would stay after school and blow things up."
- "I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was."
More In Architecture
- "I was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead."― Gilbert K. Chesterton
- "What is being called the UN ‘gender architecture’ is more like a shack. Women need a bigger global house if equality is ever to become a reality."― Charlotte Bunch
- "I call architecture frozen music."― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe