![]() ![]() Here his startling glass and concrete Brutalist building is nestled in an open meadow of native plants, the building looking as if it had sprouted fully formed from Oberlanders landscape. She and Erickson also teamed up on the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, another critically acclaimed landmark. They make each level navigable to anyone, even if you are in a wheelchair or pushing a pram. An oasis of green roofs, waterfalls and hanging gardens, it descends from the citys courthouses and government offices a low-slung concrete complex designed by Erickson by way of an ingenious series of gently graded granite stair ramps that Oberlander called stramps (she was inspired by goat paths). One is Robson Square, a three-block downtown plaza built between 19. With the Canadian modernist architect Arthur Erickson, she created some of the most enduring and beloved public spaces in Vancouver, her adopted city. Its modernist ethos and her own upbringing gave her a mission to improve peoples lives with public spaces nourished by nature. The cause was complications of COVID-19, said her daughter Judy Oberlander.Ĭornelia Oberlander was one of the first women to study at Harvards Graduate School of Design, founded by Walter Gropius, a leader of the Bauhaus movement. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, a German-born Canadian landscape architect who blended naturalistic designs with modernist ideals and recognized early on the urgency of climate change, designing public spaces to mitigate its effects, died on May 22 in Vancouver, British Columbia. ![]()
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