Remembering Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (1921-2021)
Remembering Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (1921-2021)
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, the famed Canadian landscape architect, has passed away at the age of 99 in Vancouver. Here, we pay tribute to her life and work.
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander in 2018, sitting on a Harry Bertoia ‘Diamond’ chair in her Vancouver home, located in the University Endowment Lands, a semi-forested area west of the city.
Photography: Yoshihiro Makino
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, the critically acclaimed Canadian landscape architect, has passed in Vancouver at the age of 99. Oberlander’s long career was filled with impressive highlights, From being taught by modernist architects such as Walter Gropius at Harvard, to working with Louis Kahn, Arthur Erickson, Shigeru Ban and Moshe Safdie on a string of thoughtful, life-enriching projects – her work and legacy on the value of green expanses and the importance of public space will remain important and influentia
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Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, a pioneer in the field of landscape architecture, whose outdoor designs are as ubiquitous as they are adored in her adopted home of Vancouver, died Saturday at the age of 99.
In a statement released Sunday, the City of Vancouver announced it has posthumously bestowed the Freedom of the City Award, the city’s highest honour, on Oberlander.
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“Cornelia Oberlander was one of Vancouver’s most renowned Jewish residents, and during Jewish Heritage Month this May, we honour her outstanding accomplishments in bringing world-class landscape design to Canada, and to Vancouver in particular,” Mayor Kennedy Stewart said in a release. “On behalf of council, I extend my deepest sympathies to her family and friends. May her memory be a blessing.”
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