Dallas Museum of Art

Sculptor, installation artist, painter and furniture maker Richard Fleischner conceived and built his courtyard as a “square within a square within a square”. Our design efforts refurbished Fleischner’s original vision, making the landscape more resilient and more practical. A surface of decomposed granite on structural soils, for example, preserves his vision for a non-directional ground plane while also enabling guests wearing high heels to walk comfortably. Vegetation is re-vitalized. We substituted hardy cedar elms for the original but frailer Bradford Pear trees and suspended catenaries to light the courtyard for museum events.