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Maya Lin
American
Architect
Born:
Oct 5
,
1959
Architecture
Art
Me
School
War
You
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I was probably the first kid in my high school to go to Yale. I applied almost as a lark. Then, when I got there, I was the dumbest person in your class.
Maya Lin
Class
School
First
Kid
High
High School
Almost
Yale
Got
Go
Dumbest
Person
Then
Your
Lark
Applied
You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.
Maya Lin
Love
You
Learning
Competition
School
Worrying
High
High School
About
Having
More
Because
Want
Them
Should
Explore
Exploring
Fun
Things
I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.
Maya Lin
Architecture
Programming
Approaches
Systems
Logic
Perfect
Computer
Combination
Math
Just
Loved
Figured
It was a requirement by the veterans to list the 57,000 names. We're reaching a time that we'll acknowledge the individual in a war on a national level.
Maya Lin
War
Time
Veterans
National
Individual
Names
Reaching
List
Acknowledge
Requirement
Level
The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost.
Maya Lin
War
Lost
Approach
Definition
Individual
Modern
Acknowledgement
Lives
OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.
Maya Lin
Me
Hurt
Black
Young
Sense
Think
Too
OK
Female
None
Opposition
American
Grade
Asian
Asian-American
Served
Below
Warmth isn't what minimalists are thought to have.
Maya Lin
Thought
Warmth
How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.
Maya Lin
Home
Living
Our
Evident
More
How
Up
Frightening
Child
Polluting
Planet
Using
Now
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