When the winner is announced, no one is more surprised than the student architect herself, Maya Lin ... statue and flag -- not at the center, but off to the side. The Vietnam Veterans' Memorial ...

Maya Lin won a national contest to design the Vietnam memorial in 1981 when she was a 21-year-old senior at Yale University.

Sculptor and architect Maya Lin is best known for her design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., but modern viewers may not know about her rise to prominence and the subsequent ...

When I won the competition to design the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, it was anonymous. You were a number. I was 1026. To this day I have to wonder, had my name been out there, would that have made ...

When the winner is announced, no one is more surprised than the student architect herself, Maya Lin ... statue and flag -- not at the center, but off to the side. The Vietnam Veterans' Memorial ...

WASHINGTON (NEXSTAR) – The woman who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial may not be a household name, but the impact of sculptor and architect Maya Lin’s work has been felt by millions.