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The winning design, picked from among 1,421 entries last May in a national competition, was submitted by a Chinese American, Maya Ying Lin, 22. "I've studied funerary architecture, the relation of architecture to death," says Lin. She has pointed the 200-ft.-long walls of her memorial...
A lively, articulate woman who was born in Athens, Ohio, Lin graduated only last May from Yale, where she majored in architecture (and beat out one of her mentors in the Viet Nam competition). It was her concept, rather than her hazy pastel rendering of it, that won over the...
NOWADAYS, whether or not we like the idea, it looks as if it's going to be important to understand the culture of Southern California. After all, it has formed two Presidents and provided a congenial atmosphere for the retirement of a third. James McMichael's Four Good Things, a...
The gigantic East Bank Club in Chicago is a two-block, five-story country club of glass and steel. It is nicknamed the Biggest Meat Market by its 5,000 youthful and mostly single, upper-middle-management members, who pay an initial $900 to join. The E.B.C. is more than...
Partners' goal, which might be called the City Livable, is a reaction to the anonymity of international-style architecture and its obsession with wiping the city clean of natural and human messiness. It emphasizes a shift from monumental construction to humble restoration, from large parks to intimate plazas, from...