NAMES IN THE NEWS : Memorial Designer Back at Yale
Architect Maya Ying Lin, who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., when she was a Yale student, has returned to her alma mater to mark the arrival of women undergraduates 20 years ago.
Yale has commissioned Lin to design a sculpture to celebrate new generations of Yale women on campus, culminating a yearlong observance of the 20th anniversary.
The monument “is more about the future than commemorating the past,” Lin said this week, and likely will include places where “people can sit and enjoy themselves.” She would not discuss possible designs.
In 1981 as a senior, Lin’s design was chosen from 1,420 entries for the Vietnam memorial, a black granite work inscribed with the names of 58,000 Americans killed or missing. It is the most visited monument in Washington.
Lin also designed a monument to those slain during the civil rights movement. The work was dedicated in Montgomery, Ala., in November.
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