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Her parents immigrated to the United States from China in 1949 and settled in Ohio in 1958, one year before Maya Lin was born.
Her father, Henry Huan Lin, was a ceramist and former dean of the Ohio University College of Fine Arts.
Lin studied at Yale University, where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1981 and a Master of Architecture degree in 1986.
She has also been awarded honorary doctorate degrees from Yale University, Harvard University, Williams College, and Smith College.
She was among the youngest in Yale University when she received an honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts in 1987.
When she was not studying, she took independent courses from Ohio University and spent her free time casting bronzes in the school foundry.
Lin, having grown up as an Asian minority, has said that she " didn't even realize " she was Chinese until later in life, and that it was not until her 30s that she had a desire to understand her cultural background.
Commenting on her design of a new home for the Museum of Chinese in America near New York City's bella Chinatown, Lin attached a personal significance to the project being a Chinese-related project because she wanted her two daughters to " know that part of their heritage.
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