Maya Lin is an American architecture who was born in Athens, Ohio. She is mostly known as the individual who designed the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC at the age of 21, which she received the opportunity by winning a contest over 1000 other contestants. This piece of work from her is especially beautiful because of the simplicity and the grace in the form that she did it. The memorial is a wall made up of granite etched with the names of the soldiers who lost their lives in the war. The walls are sunk deeply in the ground with the earth right behind it. The most interesting thing to me about this design is that one side of the wall points at the Lincoln memorial while the other points at the Washington monument. Lin would go on to also design the Civil Rights Memorial in Alabama.