Acknowledgments. A special thanks to Binky Urban, Bill Rosen and Sharon Gibbons of Simon & Schuster, and Michael Rock and Alice Chung of 2x4 for helping to give this book a shape.

Thanks to Tan Lin, for his editorial advice, and to Daniel Wolf, Julia Lin, Sarah Wayland-Smith, and Julie Shurtz for their help and support throughout this project. Also thanks to Freida Mock and Terry Sanders for all the images from the documentary Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision.

On staying small. I have completed these works while maintaining a small studio, with at the most one or two assistants working with me at any given time.

I have managed to maintain this studio size by always working with larger firms, whether architects, landscape architects, or engineers, in order to realize these projects.

I could not have completed these works without them.

I would like to thank all my assistants: Barbara Lilker, Kelle Brooks, Jane Sachs, Jean Pike, Andy Berman, Clay Miller, Bruce Irwin, Barnaby Wauters, Kathy Chia, Jonsara Ruth, Florencia Kratsman, Maria Camoratto, Janette Kim, Sherry Shieh, Stas Zakrzewski, Sarah Wayland-Smith, Nicole Pillorgé, and Tanya Chan.

And thanks to all those who have helped to build these works:

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Washington, D.C.

Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, sponsor

Cooper-Lecky Partnership, architect of record

Henry Arnold, landscape architect

Gilbane Construction, general contractor

Civil Rights Memorial

Montgomery, Alabama

Southern Poverty Law Center, sponsor

Robert Coles, architect

Ken Upchurch, Upchurch Construction, general contractor

William Hobbes, fountain engineer

Granite Importer and Rogan Granitindustrie, stonework

Women’s Table

New Haven, Connecticut

Yale University, sponsor

Steve Fisher of Edward Larrabee Barres and John M. Y. Lee, architects

Spiegel Zamecnik and Shah, Inc., engineers

William Hobbes, fountain engineer

Pamela Delphinic, Yale University, project manager

Kevin Leach, Leach Building Co., construction manager

Rock of Ages, fabricator

Civitillo Masonry Inc., installer

Topo

Charlotte, North Carolina

Charlotte Mecklenburg Art Commission, sponsor

Henry Arnold, landscape architect

Farley-Miles Construction, general contractor

Groundswell

Columbus, Ohio

Wexner Center for the Arts

Sherri Gelden, director

Sarah Rogers, director of exhibitions

Jim Scott, chief exhibition designer, with David Bamber, Benjamin Knepper, and Mike Lucas

Michael Phinney, Phinney Industrial Roofing, Inc., installation

Ford Motor Co. & Keystone Cullet, glass suppliers

Wave Field

Ann Arbor, Michigan

François-Xavier Bagnoud Foundation, University of Michigan

Alice Simsar, arts consultant

Johnson Johnson and Ray, landscape architects

Canon Russeau, landscape contractors

Eclipsed Time

New York, New York

Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Long Island Railroad

Donald Gratz, Treitel-Gratz Co., Inc., fabricator

Jack Marshal and Craig Newman, Starfire Lighting, Inc.

Fred Wangenstein, American Blast & Glass Co.

Sounding Stones

Federal Courthouse, New York, New York

General Services Administration

Rogan Granitindustrie, fabricators

William Hobbes, fountain consultant

Treitel-Gratz Co., metalwork

10 Degrees North

New York, New York

Rockefeller Foundation

KPF, architects

Bruce O’Brien, stone cutter

Scott Horst, woodworking

Larry Cooper, graphics

Buzz Vaultz, sandblasting

A Shift in the Stream

Des Moines, Iowa

Principal Financial Group, sponsor

Herbert Lewis Kruse Blunck, architects

Colleen Vojvodich, arts curator

William Hobbes, fountain consultant

Reading a Garden

in collaboration with Tan Lin, poet Columbus. Ohio

Cleveland Committee for Public Art

Cleveland Public Library

Scott Mayhew, Corsair, graphic design

Topologies

Jeff Fleming, chief curator of exhibition and SECCA

Michael Shiner (gaffer for Rock Field)

The Earth is (not) Flat

Knoll Inc.

The Weber Residence

Williamstown, Massachusetts

Larry and Judith Weber

with William Bialosky, architect

David Owen, general contractor

Zen Associates, Inc., landscape architects

The Museum for African Art

New York. New York

David Hotson, associated architect

Herbert Construction, general contractor

Scott Horst, cabinetmaker

Asian/Pacific/American Studies Institute, New York University

New York, New York

David Hotson, associated architect

On Par Construction, general contractor

Jack Tsien, director, A/P/A

Risa Morimoto, associate director, A/P/A

The Norton Residence

New York, New York

Peter and Eileen Norton

David Hotson, associated architect

David Giovanitti, general contractor

Friedman & Oppenheimer, structural engineer

Rénee Cooley, lighting design

Feller Precision, specialty hardware

Langston Hughes Library

Haley Farm, Clinton, Tennessee

Len and Louise Reggio, sponsors

Children’s Defense Fund, clients

Marian Wright Edelman, director, CDF

Margaret Butler and Russell Hopper, Martella Associates, associated architects

Stas Zakrzewski, Maya Lin Studio, project architect

Leon Williams, general contractor