Bunshaft Selected as HMSG Architect
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PrintGordon Bunshaft is selected as the architect for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden jointly by the Smithsonian Institution and Joseph H. Hirshhorn. Bunshaft, a partner in the New York firm of Skidmore Owings and Merrill LLP, designed the Lyndon B. Johnson Memorial Library (University of Texas at Austin) and the Beinecke Rare Book Library (Yale University). He produces a round modern design for the new museum located to the east of the Arts and Industries Building on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
1967