So, in terms of inspiration, which came first, Monticello or Maya Lin?

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Maya Lin. (Applause.) The 2009 National Medal of Arts to Maya Lin, for her profound work as an architect, artist, and environmentalist.

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However, seen from above and nearer to the woods, with its sunken walls half-embedded into the hillside, it reveals itself as a modernist sculpture in living green a minimalist form that could have been designed by Richard Serra or Maya Lin.

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