Cornelia Hahn Oberlander

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Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (born June 20, 1921 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ; died May 22, 2021 in Vancouver ) was a German-Canadian landscape architect .

Robson Square (2015)
National Gallery of Canada
Sabine Lepsius : Cornelia and Charlotte Hahn (1932)

Life

Cornelia Hahn was a daughter of Beate Jastrow and the engineer Franz Hahn (1891-1933), a Jewish family. The pedagogue Kurt Hahn was an uncle, the archaeologist Elisabeth Jastrow an aunt. She fled Nazi Germany to the USA with her mother and sister in 1939. The grandmother Anna Seligmann Jastrow also found her way to the USA via Cuba. The family initially ran a nursery in New Hampshire . Hahn graduated from Smith College in 1944, and then Landscape Architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design with a Masters degree in 1947.

In 1953 Hahn married the urban planner Peter Oberlander (1922–2008), who was born in Vienna and who also emigrated, and they had three children. Hahn Oberlander founded in 1953 in Vancouver , the architectural firm Oberlander Landscape Architects . One of their first projects in 1951 was a children's playground for a residential complex planned by Louis I. Kahn with a fruit tree and a vegetable patch. She planned 70 more children's playgrounds, including the one in the Canadian pavilion at Expo 67 in Montreal .

Hahn Oberlander has worked for the CK Choi Building in Vancouver, the roof garden of the Vancouver Public Library , the Northwest Territories Legislative Building , the Peacekeeping Monument in Ottawa, the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC , the National Gallery of Canada , the Museum of Anthropology and Robson Square in Vancouver. The visitor center she helped design in the VanDusen Botanical Garden met the LEED criteria for ecological building in 2011 .

Hahn Oberlander was inducted into the Order of Canada in 1990 and into the Order of British Columbia in 1996 . She received several honorary doctorates. In 2021 she posthumously received the Freedom of the City Award from the City of Vancouver, the city's highest honor.

The Cultural Landscape Foundation in Washington, DC has been awarding the Oberlander Prize for outstanding landscape architecture every two years since 2021.

She died in Vancouver on May 22, 2021 at the age of 99.

Fonts (selection)

  • Playgrounds 1972: a plea for utopia or the re-cycled empty lot . Ottawa, 1972.
  • with Ira Bruce Nadel, Lesley R. Bohm: Trees in the city . Pergamon Press, Toronto 1978.
  • with Elisabeth Whitelaw, Eva Matsuzaki: Introductory manual for greening roofs for Public Works and Government Services Canada . Public Works and Government Services Canada, Québec 2002.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Landscape architect Cornelia Oberlander honored. In: neuelandschaft.de . October 14, 2019, accessed May 28, 2021 .
  2. ^ Hans Peter Obermayer: German ancient scholars in American exile . Berlin: de Gruyter, 2014, pp. 185f.
  3. ↑ Cheryl Chan: Former UBC professor Peter Oberlander wins posthumous United Nations award , in: The Province , October 4, 2009, webarchive
  4. ↑ en: Peter Oberlander , in the English language Wikipedia
  5. ↑ a b Landscape architect Cornelia Oberlander died at the age of 99. In: nw.de . May 24, 2021, accessed May 28, 2021 .
  6. ↑ Scott Brown: Vancouver landscape architecture pioneer Cornelia Oberlander dead at 99. In: Vancouver Sun . May 25, 2021, accessed on May 28, 2021 (English): "In a statement released Sunday, the City of Vancouver announced it has posthumously bestowed the Freedom of the City Award, the city's highest honor, on Oberlander."
  7. ^ Oberlander Prize , at The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF)
personal data
SURNAME Hahn Oberlander, Cornelia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oberlander, Cornelia Hahn; Hahn, Cornelia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian landscape architect
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH May 22, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Vancouver