Maya Lin : a biography / Donald Langmead.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langmead, Donald.

Contributor:

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Series:

Greenwood biographies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lin, Maya, 1959-.

Lin, Maya.

Architects--United States--Biography.

Architects.

Chinese American architects.

United States.

Chinese American architects--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 190 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, [2011]

Summary:

"This book provides an informal biography of the wunderkind who became one of America's greatest living artists and most well-known architects"--Provided by publisher.

"This book is a biography of Maya Lin"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1 "Where Are You Really From?": Chinese Ancestry 1

Chapter 2 A Tradition in Architecture: Lin Huiyin and Liang Sicheng 15

Chapter 3 Escaping China: Maya Lin's Parents 27

Chapter 4 "People Here Are Nice": Athens, Ohio 39

Chapter 5 Outside, Looking In: Childhood and Youth 49

Chapter 6 Almost for "a Lark": An Undergraduate at Yale 63

Chapter 7 Design in Mashed Potato: The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Competition 75

Chapter 8 Annus Horribilis: Building the Vietnam Veterans Memorial 89

Chapter 9 Accretions and Aggravations: Continuing Conflicts in Washington 105

Chapter 10 New Haven, New York: New Beginnings 117

Chapter 11 Out of the Wings: The Architect as Artist 131

Chapter 12 A Hectic Decade: The 1990s 145

Chapter 13 A New Millennium 159.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

ISBN:

0313378533

9780313378539

9780313378546

0313378541

OCLC:

690088596

Publisher Number:

99947774322