Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape

Few can argue against the successes of internationally acclaimed landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander. After over six decades of practice, her portfolio boasts a diversity of works ranging from intimate private suburban gardens and public playgrounds to politically charged urban schemes realized in collaboration with high-profile architects. Vancouver’s Museum of Anthropology (1976) and the National Gallery of Canada (1988) are among her most well-known. While this celebration of Oberlander’s prolific career feels long overdue, landscape architect and professor Susan Herrington lends a unique approach to the telling of the story by weaving Oberlander’s biography within the trajectory of modern landscape architecture.