The proposed Eisenhower Memorial, as designed by Frank Gehry.

Frank Gehry may be an acclaimed architect, but Dwight D. Eisenhower’s family really doesn’t care for the memorial he’s designed for the 34th U.S. president.

On Monday members of Eisenhower’s family sent a letter to the National Capital Planning Commission in which they strenuously objected to Gehry’s design for the memorial — planned for the square in front of the Department of Education on Independence Avenue — and asked that the planning process be stopped altogether:

We are calling for an indefinite delay in the approval process and an indefinite postponement for the ground breaking for the memorial until there is a thorough review of the design. We have been told by a number of professionals that this memorial has been “fast-tracked” to meet some arbitrary deadline. We believe it is inappropriate given the controversy that surrounds the design and its concept. It is far more important to adopt a memorial design that has the support of the Eisenhower family, Congress and the American people than it is to rush forward with a design and concept that are flawed.

According to the letter, the family believes the memorial does not adequately commemorate Eisenhower’s role as president and Supreme Command of Allied Forces during World War II, instead focusing on his roots as a “barefoot boy from Kansas.” The family also complained that a series of 80-foot-tall woven tapestries framing the memorial won’t hold up to the elements, writing that they are “not likely to be sustainable over the centuries. The proposed Eisenhower Memorial could easily look dated or uncared for in a matter of years.”

According to an AP article, the NCPC thanked the Eisenhower family for its input, but the Eisenhower Memorial Commission is looking to have the current design approved by March and construction started later this year.

This certainly isn’t the first time that there has been controversy over a presidential memorial. During the planning of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial along the Tidal Basin, members of his family disagreed over whether he should be portrayed in a wheelchair or not.