Cornelia oberlander biography template

  • Cornelia Hahn Oberlander was born in Muelheim-Ruhr, Germany, in Her father died while she was still a child and her mother, a trained horticulturist.
  • Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, CC, OBC, landscape architect (born 20 June in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany; died in Vancouver, BC).
  • (20 June – 22 May ) was a German-born Canadian landscape architect.

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    Cornelia Hahn Oberlander was born in Muelheim-Ruhr, Germany, in Her father died while she was still a child and her mother, a trained horticulturist, brought Cornelia and her sister to New York, later moving the family to a acre farm in New Hampshire.

    Oberlander attended Smith College in the early s, attracted to its interdepartmental program in architecture and landscape architecture. She was strongly influenced by faculty member Kate Ries Koch, who taught at Smith from to From Koch, Oberlander learned that landscape architecture was not just about gardens. A paper she wrote on Pierre L’Enfant’s plan for Washington, D.C., further demonstrated for her the scope of her profession and introduced her to issues of historic landscape preservation.

    After gaining her diploma from Smith, Oberlander attended the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, graduating with a B.L.A. in bygd the time Oberlander arrived, Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer were well established in the Archite

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    Cornelia Oberlander

    Canadian landscape architect (–)

    Cornelia Hahn Oberlander

    CC OBC

    Born

    Cornelia Hahn


    ()20 June

    Muelheim-Ruhr, Rhine Province, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic

    Died22 May () (aged&#;99)

    Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    NationalityGerman, Canadian
    Alma&#;materSmith College, Harvard
    OccupationArchitect
    AwardsOrder of Canada, American Society of Landscape Architects Medal, Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award, Governor General's Medal in Landscape Architecture
    PracticeCornelia Hahn Oberlander Landscape Architects
    BuildingsC. K. Choi Building, Vancouver Public Library, Northwest Territories Legislative Building, Canadian Chancery in Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Canada, Museum of Anthropology at UBC, Robson Square, and Vancouver Law Courts
    ProjectsPeacekeeping Monument, VanDusen Botanical Garden Visitors Center
    DesignCanadian Government Pavilion, Children's Creative Centr

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    A Force of Nature: Cornelia Hahn Oberlander ’44

    Today, Cornelia, at 98, is living and working in Vancouver, Canada, in the house she and her late husband, Peter Oberlander, an architect and regional planner with an international reputation, designed in collaboration with the architect Barry Downs. She was one of the first two women to attend the Graduate School of Design at Harvard, and the first to graduate with a professional degree in landscape architecture. When Cornelia and I met at Smith in to talk about creating a landscape studies program at her alma mater, she was already a powerful voice and influential designer in landscape architecture; she was known for her environmentally conscious, forward-thinking projects, especially in Canada, where she had settled. She was determined that Smith—with its Frederick Law Olmsted– designed campus—should be among the first liberal arts colleges to train students to look closely at the landscape and to envision new ideas for it.