Tinkering with a 'Total Work'

Charles Birnbaum, FASLA, the president and CEO of the Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF), a landscape education and advocacy organization that is consulting on the proposal, says this addition “destroys the relationship between the building and landscape architecture” by disrupting the visual continuity between the rectangular pool and a rectangular window on the north facade of the Hirschhorn Museum, a characteristic feature of the staunchly opaque concrete drum.