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Architecture is like a mythical fantastic. It has to be experienced. It can't be described. We can draw it up and we can make models of it, but it can only be experienced as a complete whole.
Maya Lin
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Maya Lin
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: October 5
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Athens
Ohio
Maya Ying Lin
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We were unusually brought up there was no gender differentiation. I was never thought of as any less than my brother.
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I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar. The idea occurred to me there on the site. Take a knife and cut open the earth, and with time the grass would heal it. As if you cut open the rock and polished it.
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