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Cornelia Oberlander, a farseeing landscape architect, dies at 99 Based in Vancouver, B.C., the 98-year-old Oberlander has been in practice for more that 70 years. Photo © Charles A. Birnbaum, courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation. by Penelope Green (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, a German-born Canadian landscape architect who blended naturalistic designs with modernist ideals and recognized early on the urgency of climate change, designing public spaces to mitigate its effects, died on May 22 in Vancouver, British Columbia. She was 99. The cause was complications of COVI...

Cornelia Oberlander, a Farseeing Landscape Architect, Dies at 99 Her acclaimed modernist but naturalist designs recognized the fragility of the climate and the social effects of parks and playgrounds. Cornelia Oberlander in an orchard on her Vancouver property in 1989. “The longing for nature is built into our genes,” she said. “That is the driving force behind my work.”Credit...Kiku Hawkes June 9, 2021Updated 4:56 p.m. ET Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, a German-born Canadian landscape architect who blended naturalistic designs with modernist ideals and recognized early on the urgency of c...

Based in Canada, she was an advocate of sustainability and had close partnerships with architects.

When Cornelia Hahn Oberlander passed away on May 22, 2021, we lost an amazing landscape architect and my good friend. I wrote Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, which was published by the University of Virginia Press in 2013. I remember telling Boyd Zenner, the architecture and landscape acquisition editor for the press at the time, about the book in 2008. She immediately saw the potential and encouraged me to write a prospectus, which was thankfully accepted. The book was a real highlight for Cornelia, and it helped spread the word about her extraordinary life and her gr...

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. Ober...