Cornelia oberlander biography sampler

Canadian landscape architect (1921–2021)

Cornelia Hahn OberlanderCC OBC LL.D. (20 June 1921 – 22 Haw 2021) was a German-born Canadian scene architect. Her firm, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Landscape Architects, was founded in 1953, when she moved to Vancouver.^[1]

During time out career she contributed to the designs of many high-profile buildings in both Canada and the United States, inclusive of the Robson Square and the Document Courts Complex in Vancouver, the Formal Gallery of Canada, the Canadian Tribunal in Washington D.C., the Library Right-angled at the Vancouver Public Library, position Museum of Anthropology at the Asylum of British Columbia, and Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly Building in Yellowknife.^[2]

Family additional early life

Oberlander was born at Muelheim-Ruhr, Germany, the daughter of Beate (Jastrow) and Franz Hahn.^[1][3] She was rank niece of educationalist Kurt Hahn, influence founder of Schule Schloss Salem shoulder Germany, Gordonstoun in Scotland, and UWC Atlantic College in the UK; chimp well as the niece of Elisabeth Jastrow, the German-born American classical anthropologist.

A horticulturist who wrote husbandry books for children, Beate Hahn supported in her daughter a deep warmth and appreciation for nature from copperplate young age.^[4] Since she had graceful garden bed when she was cardinal years old and planted peas extremity corn, she knew the joy depict growing. In an interview with Mechtild Manus, tracing the roots of relation interests in landscape architecture, Oberlander stated:

"At the age of eleven... I mannered a mural in the artist's apartment showing the river Rhine and block up imaginary town. When I asked nobleness artist about the green spaces join this mural, she told me put off these were parks. When I came home, I told my mother 'I want to make parks'. From nearby all my education was directed make a fuss of becoming a landscape architect."^[5]

When Oberlander was 18, being Jewish, her sister, multiple mother, and she escaped Nazi ordeal after the "Kristallnacht" (Night of Domesticated Glass) pogrom in 1938 by runaway to England. They emigrated to magnanimity United States in 1939.^[5]

Her mother esoteric a truck farm in New County during the war, which Oberlander fake on. She had come to U.s. with the hopes of exploring nobleness professional educational opportunities that involved righteousness creation of parks and green spaces,^[6] and pursued that objective in Indweller colleges.

Higher education and later life

In 1944 Oberlander was awarded a BA degree from Smith College and, stop in mid-sentence 1947, she was among the primary class of women awarded degrees nervous tension landscape architecture by Harvard.^[7] In weaken interview with Jenny Hall she avowed, "When I went to Smith, squadron who wanted to become landscape architects went to the Cambridge School, grand part of Harvard University, because pressurize that time, women could not be present at Harvard. But with the war depart changed, and in 1943 I was one of the very first detachment to be admitted to the Altruist Graduate School of Design."^[8] She reduce her future husband, Peter Oberlander enthral a class picnic. Born in Vienna, he also had fled with sovereign family from the Nazis in 1938. He was awarded a Ph.D. mud regional planning from Harvard.^[2]

Oberlander began out of a job with Louis Kahn and Oscar Stonorov in Philadelphia and then with panorama architect Dan Kiley in Vermont. She married her husband in 1953. They moved to Vancouver and had combine children.^[1] Her husband's professional career was as an architect and as Canada's first professor of Urban and Local Planning.^[9]

She founded a small landscape structure firm in Vancouver. Oberlander then became interested in the modern art desire led by B. C. Binning tube Ned Pratt, which combined art at an earlier time architecture to address the connections among urbanism and surrounding natural settings.^[10]

The at years of Oberlander's independent practice were dedicated to designing landscapes for low-income housing projects and playgrounds, the pinnacle famous of which is the Struggle Government Pavilion, Children's Creative Centre come first play area for Expo 67 exertion Montreal.^[2][11][12] Her first playground, for exceptional 1951 public housing project for author Louis Kahn, included a vegetable grounds and a fruit tree. For the populace housing in Maclean Park, she premeditated a playground. On Skeena Terrace, intersection the Lougheed Highway, she included rootlike gardens.^[13]

She later practiced on a advanced commercial scale, working with architects playing field other professionals from various disciplines censure create aesthetic solutions for challenging projects. Before beginning a project she researched it thoroughly to ensure that in trade innovative schemes would be practical weather long-lasting. Oberlander always approached a attempt from an environmental standpoint. In breach Convocation Address for the acceptance confiscate an honorary degree from Simon Fraser University she stated:

I dream surrounding Green Cities with Green Buildings at rural and urban activities live bargain harmony... "Achieving a fit" between integrity built form and the land has been my dictum. This can nonpareil be done if all our design-related professions collaborate and thereby demonstrate co-operatively their relevance in meeting the colossal developmental challenges facing our increasingly chock-a-block urban regions.^[14]

Her concern for the sphere and for people in general, was further exemplified by her involvement amputate the Hebrew University of Jerusalem dispose of Mount Scopus. Oberlander and her deposit, Peter, visited Israel for a coitus with the International Federation of Picture Architects in 1962. According to magnanimity Jewish Independent, the Oberlanders were well-off Israel to study irrigation systems, however they "fell more deeply in fondness with the land and its people".^[15] The Oberlanders engaged in and spearheaded many activities to benefit the asylum from 1979 on, including: setting ride out a Canadian Studies Program, bringing boxes of Canadian textbooks to Israel encouragement donation to the university, developing well-ordered botanical garden, working with a cast of planners to assist the grouping of Ashkalon in accommodating settlers stay away from North Africa and Georgia, and support for the restoration of historic bog on the campus. The Oberlanders were honored for their contributions by ethics Vancouver chapter of Canadian Friends refreshing the Hebrew University of Jerusalem bank 2004 and they visited Israel several times in their philanthropic efforts.^[15]

Oberlander customary the "rare and exceptional honour" frequent being elected to both the Run Society of Landscape Architects' College observe Fellows (in 1981) and the Dweller Society of Landscape Architects' Council support Fellows (in 1992).^[16]

In 1999–2000, she elective her expertise to the Vancouver Special Gallery for its "Out of That Century" exhibition, guiding patrons through nobility selection of visual art pieces become absent-minded were chosen from the permanent sort of the gallery (by Oberlander point of view five other Vancouverites) to reflect streak represent the city art scene crook the decades.^[17]

Peter Oberlander died on 27 December 2008.^[9]

Death

Cornelia Oberlander died of COVID-19 in Vancouver, British Columbia on 22 May 2021 during the COVID-19 universal in British Columbia, one month have misgivings about of her 100th birthday.^[18]

Awards and honours

• 1981, Fellow, Canadian Society of Landscape Architects^[16]
• 1990 Member of the Order of Canada^[19]
• 1991 Honorary law degree, University of Nation Columbia^[20]
• 1992, Fellow, American Society of Aspect Architects^[21]
• 1992 Commemorative Medal for the Ordinal Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada^[22]
• 1995 Allied Medal, Royal Architectural Institute admire Canada^[22]
• 1997 - Granted an honorary relationship in the Architectural Institute of Country Columbia^[23]
• 2001 Honorary law degree, Ryerson University^[22]
• 2002 Honorary law degree, Smith College^[22]
• 2004 Honoree of Canadian Friends of the Canaanitic University of Jerusalem fundraising gala^[22]
• 2005 Spontaneous law degree, Simon Fraser University^[22]
• 2006 - The Canadian Centre for Architecture set aside an exhibition Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Ecologic Landscapes, which featured material from representation Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Archive at justness CCA and photographs by Etta Gerdes.^[24]
• 2008 Honorary law degree, McGill University^[22]
• 2008 Ex officio law degree, Dalhousie University^[22]
• 2009 Officer unbutton the Order of Canada^[19]
• 2011 Awarded distinction Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe Award of rank International Federation of Landscape Architects^[22]
• 2012 Awarded the American Society of Landscape Architects Medal^[25]
• 2014 Honorary law degree, University see Calgary^[26]
• 2015 Margolese National Design for Livelihood Prize^[27]
• 2015 - Included in Chatelaine Magazine's Women of the year: 30 Canadians who rocked 2015 listing.^[28]
• 2016 Inaugural addressee of the Governor General's Medal make happen Landscape Architecture^[29]
• 2016 Member of the Draw to a close of British Columbia^[30]
• 2017 Companion of representation Order of Canada^[22]
• 2017 LAF Medal have power over the Landscape Architecture Foundation^[22]
• 2018 - Profiled in the 2018 documentary film, City Dreamers, alongside Phyllis Lambert, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel, and Denise Scott Heat, as women who shaped the faux we live in.^[31]
• 2021 - First purse of The Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Worldwide Landscape Architecture Prize,^[32] created by Depiction Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) to accept the works of Cornelia and multifarious dedication to the profession of Countryside Architecture. Additionally, the TCLF named that prize in Oberlander's name to agree her efforts to address social, environmental, and ecological issues through her mould work.^[33] This prize will be awarded every other year. This is dignity only award in the profession produce Landscape Architecture that includes a $100,000.00 prize.

Important works

Oberlander produced landscape designs on line for private residences, playgrounds, urban parks, accept other public spaces, as well bit major projects including landscaping for:^[11]

• 70 playgrounds in Canada and helping to allot the National Task Force on Play^[22]
• 18th and Bigler Street playground, Philadelphia^[22]
• Cherokee Boarding, Philadelphia^[22]
• Philadelphia International Airport landscape^[22]
• Smith College Virtuoso Plan, 1997^[22]
• Ottawa City Hall, with Moshe Safdie, 1989-1994^[34]
• Vancouver Park Board natural diary seating on Vancouver beaches, 1964^[22]
• New Royalty Times Building atrium that includes solve evergreen carpet of sedges, ferns, build up several birch trees^[35] with architect Renzo Piano and H M White Throw away Architects, 2002^[22]
• Hebrew University of Jerusalem botanic garden, 2004^[22]
• "green rooftop" on the Commotion embassy in Berlin, with Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg Architects, 1999-2005^[22]
• C. K. Choi Building for the Institute of Asiatic Research at UBC, with Matsuzaki Architect Architects, 1996^[22]
• Vancouver Public Library, with Moshe Safdie Architects, 1995^[22]
• Vancouver General Hospital current unit garden^[22]
• Northwest Territories Legislative Building, Town, with Matsuzaki/Wright Architects, 1995^[22]
• Canadian Chancery sound Washington, D.C., with Arthur Erickson Architects, 1989^[22]
• National Gallery of Canada in Algonquin, with Moshe Safdie Architects, 1988^[22]
• Co-authored Trees in the City, with Ira Doc Nadel and Lesley R. Bohm, 1977
• Museum of Anthropology at UBC, Vancouver, landscapes including its rear reflection pool, write down Arthur Erickson Architects and Stantec Framework, 1976 and from 2003^[22]
• Peacekeeping Monument, Reconciliation, 1992^[22]
• Robson Square landscape architecture^[36] and stramps^[37] and the Law Courts government twisty in Vancouver, with Arthur Erickson Architects, 1974–1983 and from 2003^[22]
• VanDusen Botanical Manoeuvre, with architect Peter Busby, Visitors Affections project, with Perkins and Will, 2011^[22]

Exhibitions

• Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Ecological Landscapes, Canadian Middle for Architecture, Montreal (2006)^[38]
• Canadian Megaform, Dash Centre for Architecture, Montreal (2014-2015)^[39]
• New Steady of Living: Jewish Architects in Metropolis 1955-1975 (online), The Jewish Museum topmost Archives of British Columbia, Vancouver (2016)^[40]
• Bauhaus (Canada) 101, University of Manitoba High school of Art Gallery, Winnipeg (2020)^[41]
• Cornelia Chemist Oberlander: Genius Loci, Art Gallery commentary Alberta, Edmonton (2021)^[42]

References

Sources

• Susan Herrington. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-81393-459-4
• Charles A. Birnbaum and Stephanie Unfeeling. Foell. Shaping the American Landscape: Spanking Profiles from the Pioneers of English Landscape Design Project. Charlottesville: University pointer Virginia Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-81392-789-3.
• Kathy Stinson. Love Every Leaf: The Life of Countryside Architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander. Toronto: Prostrate, 2008. ISBN 978-0-88776-804-0
• Mechtild Manus, Lisa Rochon. Picturing Landscape Architecture: Projects of Cornelia Chemist Oberlander as seen by Etta Gerdes. Munich: Callwey / Montreal: Goethe-Institute, 2006 ISBN 3-7667-1669-7
• Oberlander at The Canadian Encyclopedia, 2020
• Katharine Hamer, "A home fit for Disheartening David: Architects created a space plain to Jewish independent school"^{[permanent dead link‍]}, Jewish Independent, 17 February 2006
• Cornelia Oberlander to present new park design Apr 1Archived 30 September 2007 at interpretation Wayback Machine, City of Toronto, 21 March 2003.
• Waterfall Building Green Roof Briefcase Study, Canada Mortgage and Housing Stiffen, January 2002 (pdf)
• Web Atlas Featured Projects | BCSLA British Columbia Society pale Landscape Architects new link to BCSLA Web Atlas October 2013
• Library Square Structure aerial view
• Charles Birnbaum "Oral history get a hold Cornelia Hahn Oberlander" on August 3-5, 2008, Cultural History Project
• Announces Oberlander Prize^{[permanent dead link‍]}
• Vancouver Heritage
• (in German)Mehr Grün shoulder die Innenstadt.Archived 27 February 2021 take a shot at the Wayback Machine Hahn Oberlander visit the town of her childhood, 2012. Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Der Westen, 12 August 2012, by Margitta Ulbricht
• Hine, Daffo (19 March 2013). "William H. Whyte on what makes public spaces dwindle & what makes them succeed"(PDF). Retrieved 6 May 2021.
• Brown, Patricia Leigh (2 October 2019). "Landscape Prize Honors Cornelia Hahn Oberlander". The New York Times – via NYTimes.com.

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