Cornelia Oberlander

In 1953 Peter, my late husband and fellow student at Harvard, founder of the department of Community and Regional Planning at UBC brought me to Canada from the U.S to a new and beautiful country with untouched open spaces, limitless potentials and challenges for my profession. Over the past 50 years I have been involved as Landscape Architect in a wide range of projects with noted internationally acclaimed architects and public agencies in Canada and the U.S.A. All projects are based on Design concepts and studies of social cultural and physical features of a given site. To each project I attempt to bring the mastery of the art and the science of the profession, as well as the ability to work creatively as a member of the team with architects and engineers in relating the finite form of the building to the out of doors. Recipient of the Margolese National Design for Living Prize (2015)