Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Lecture

Landscape Architecture Programs - School of Environmental Design and Rural Development Present:

The Inaugural Evidence-based Landscape Architecture Lecture by:

Cornelia Hahn Oberlander

Cornelia will speak about "Evidence-Based Place-Making"

Cornelia Hahn Oberlander is giving the first in a lecture series on how landscape architects seek, use, and establish evidence in their practice. The series promotes discovery of knowledge and its application in design and Oberlander has prepared her talk on how she finds and applies evidence to make ‘place’. In a career that spans some of the most influential changes in the profession of landscape architecture, Cornelia will demonstrate how she has used evidence to design magnificent, meaningful places. The presentation will describe landscape architecture’s past and future direction

Monday, October 6, 2014
Lecture will take place at Lakeside Church Downtown Guelph
75 Norfolk Street, Guelph, Ontario
at 6:00 pm
Free Admission

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Cornelia Hahn Oberlander is this country's distinguished landscape architect whose career spans over six decades and is still going strong. She is often referred to as a national treasure and her love of nature and respect for the environment has guided and inspired her work.   Her work has been internationally acclaimed, from her green roof on the Canadian Embassy in Berlin, to the atrium of the New York Times building, to the grounds surrounding the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver.  Visit her website at:  http://www.corneliaoberlander.ca/

Read a recent interview with Cornelia Hahn Oberlander in the July 25, 2014 Globe and Mail.