Maya Lin VS Lauren Bon

Maya Lin is famous for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. Lin was 21 years old when she attended Yale University in 1982 and created the Veterans Memorials Wall. Lin was studying to become an architect and as a project she decided to design the Veteran Memorial Wall. This is one of Lin's most memorable earth works involving architecture and many different designs to construct this wall. 

The Veterans Memorial Wall is a V-shape wall made out of black stones. The Veterans Memorial Wall is in the shape of an open book ready to read the names of the 58,000 dead soldiers. The names of all the dead soldiers are inscribed in polish black granite. The wall itself was made fro . m black granite from Bangalore, India.The walls also reflect the images of the trees, people visiting the walls and more.  In order to read the names of all the soldiers that died in the Vietnam war, people have to stand below the horizon which is around six feet under. The wall is 246 feet and nine inches long. The walls are sunk into the ground with the earth behind them. The color of the trees are green mix with some yellow. The walls look like they are surrounded around a circle of trees






Lauren Bon

The South Central Farm was there between 1992 and 2006. It was a 13 acre community garden. It was an urban farm and community garden. The south central farm was considered the largest urban farms in the  United States. However, the South Central Farm started facing money problems, so Lauren Bon worked behind the scenes to come up with a sustainable solution to the immediate South Central crisis.
In 2006, the Annenberg Foundation decided to move the remaining trees off the South Central Farm to Farmlab in order to save the trees as the developer clears the land upon the Farm operated. Farmlab has helped keep living plants, and everything is due to Lauren Bon. Lauren Bon goal is to keep nature alive and not let the earth destroy all the living trees, plants, flowers, and seeds.