ninakix:

Maya Lin’s original competition submission for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Architectural drawings and a one page written summary. It was chosen from 1,421 entries submitted. (via 37signals)

Maya’s always been a minimalist, but what’s so striking about this is how minimal it really is - here, you only see the bare minimum of what you absolutely have to see to understand the concept, and nothing more. I find this laudable. As a side note, the choice of colors is fantastic.

Maya Lin was still an undergrad architecture student at Yale when she won this competition. She was 21! An amazing accomplishment to say the least.