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How a pandemic year of loss reshaped Maya Lin's art and architecture


How a pandemic year of loss reshaped Maya Lin s art and architecture
Carolina A. Miranda
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Maya Lin stands amid Ghost Forest, a public art project in New York s Madison Square Park that nods to the ravaging effects of climate change (Kirk McKoy / Los Angeles Times)
For more than a year, I ve kept a folder on my desk that was stuffed full of scribbled notes for the story I was working on when the pandemic hit. Every journalist, it seems, has a version of this folder ideas rendered moot by the arrival of our global calamity.

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How pandemic loss reshaped Maya Lin's art and architecture


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For more than a year, I’ve kept a folder on my desk that was stuffed full of scribbled notes for the story I was working on when the pandemic hit. Every journalist, it seems, has a version of this folder ideas rendered moot by the arrival of our global calamity.
The story, about the architecture of libraries, was also a story about how women design for women. The library in question was one I knew intimately: Neilson Library, the central library at Smith College, the women’s college in Northampton, Mass., where I studied as an undergraduate.
My focus was a $120-million renovation of that space designed by Maya Lin Studio, in collaboration with Boston-based firm Shepley Bulfinch, which had devised Neilson’s master plan.

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