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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