[ePub] Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography by From Routledge in Arts-Photography

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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 modernmdash;and audaciously abstractmdash;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 Universityrsquo;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 Courtsmdash;one of Vancouverrsquo;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.