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Cornelia Hahn Oberlander - Making the Modern Landscape (Paperback)
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Cornelia Hahn Oberlander - Making the Modern Landscape (Paperback)
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Cornelia Hahn Oberlander is one of the most important landscape
architects of the twentieth century, yet despite her lasting
influence, few outside the field know her name. Her work has been
instrumental in the development of the late-twentieth-century
design ethic, and her early years working with architectural
luminaries such as Louis Kahn and Dan Kiley prepared her to bring a
truly modern?and audaciously abstract?sensibility to the landscape
design tradition. In Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern
Landscape, Susan Herrington draws upon archival research, site
analyses, and numerous interviews with Oberlander and her
collaborators to offer the first biography of this adventurous and
influential landscape architect. Born in 1921, Oberlander fled Nazi
Germany at the age of eighteen with her family, going on to become
one of the few women to graduate from Harvard University's Graduate
School of Design in the late 1940s. For six decades she has
practiced socially responsible and ecologically sensitive planning
for public landscapes, including the 1970s design of the Robson
Square landscape and its adjoining Provincial Law Courts?one of
Vancouver's most famous spaces. Herrington places Oberlander within
a larger social and aesthetic context, chronicling both her
personal and professional trajectory and her work in New York,
Philadelphia, Vancouver, Seattle, Berlin, Toronto, and Montreal.
Oberlander is a progenitor of some of the most significant currents
informing landscape architecture today, particularly in the area of
ecological focus. In her thorough biography, Herrington draws
much-deserved attention to one of the truly important figures in
landscape architecture.
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