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Maya Lin : topologies / foreword by John McPhee ; essays by Michael Brenson and six others.
- Title
- Maya Lin : topologies / foreword by John McPhee ; essays by Michael Brenson and six others.
- Author
- Lin, Maya, 1959-
- Publication
- New York : Rizzoli, 2015.
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- Description
- 399 pages, 1 long folded page : illustrations (chiefly color); 32 cm
- Summary
- "The first comprehensive monograph on the acclaimed American artist and architect, known for her environmental works and memorials that distill a tranquil yet texturally rich minimalism. Maya Lin is one of the most important public artists of this century. As an architecture student at Yale, Lin designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial as a class project, entering it in the largest design competition in American history. Her winning proposal, a V-shaped wall of black stone etched with the names of 58,000 dead soldiers, has since become the most visited memorial in the nation's capital. This visually rich volume presents 50 projects from the last three decades that demonstrate the scope of Lin’s creative process, featuring her own sketches and drawings and linked by her ideal of making a place for individuals within the landscape. With her environmental works Storm King Wavefield, Eleven-Minute Line (Sweden), and Pin River–Yangtze (Beijing), Lin maintains a balance between art and architecture, drawing inspiration from culturally diverse sources. From the moment she entered the national spotlight with her design for the Vietnam Memorial, Lin has been proposing ways of thinking and imagining that resist categories, genres, and borders"--Provided by publisher.
- Alternative Title
- Topologies
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Catalogs
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Note
- Foreword by John McPhee ; essays by Michael Brenson, William L. Fox, Paul Goldberger, Philip Jodidio, Maya Lin, Lisa Philips, and Dava Sobel ; index by Tan Lin.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Foreword / John Mcphee -- Inside, outside, and in between / Maya Lin -- Memory works I : Out of the earth : The wave field / Michael Brenson ; A fold in the field ; The wave fields : The wave field, Flutter, Storm king wavefield ; Earth drawings : Eleven minute line, Kentucky line ; Between language and line -- Reading the earth : Turning the tide / Lisa Phillips : The poured works : Groundswell, Il Cortile Mare, Avalanche ; Wire landscapes : Above and below, Where the land meets the sea ; Rivers : Depot River, Pin River--Yangtze, Colorado River ; The character of a hill (under glass) -- Mappings : Maya Lin's time / Dava Sobel ; Systematic landscapes, Topologies, Bodies of water ; Here and there, At water's edge ; Rivers and mountains, Arctic Circle -- Memory works II : The language gardens : Between boundaries / Philip Jodidio ; Ohio trilogy : Reading a garden, Input, An ecological primer ; The meeting room ; The drawing room ; The constellation series : Ecliptic, Ellen S. Clark Hope Plaza ; The bell tower -- Designing space : The courage to omit / Paul Goldberger : Riggio-Lynch Chapel ; Langston Hughes Library ; Museum of Chinese in America ; Private residences : The box house ; Novartis Institute for Biomedical Research -- Memory works III : In the wake of Maya Lin / by William L. Eox : The confluence project : Cape D, Bird blind, Story circles ; What is missing?
- ISBN
- 9780847846092
- 0847846091
- OCLC
- 922979494
- SCSB-12489210
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library