So there’s great fortune in coming here,” she said in 2008 interview with The Cultural Landscape Foundation. So if you don’t, you’ll crumble if you stay there.’ So my great luck really is that I married Peter, moved out here (Vancouver), and could promote the many ideas in a new place, which I could never have done in any other place. “I didn’t want to leave Harvard, I didn’t want to leave Boston, but my mother said, ‘You went to Harvard in order to take the ideas that you gathered there into the world. Oberlander, who escaped Nazi Germany when she was 18 and fled to the United States via England, was educated at Smith College and then Harvard University, where she graduated from its Graduate School of Design in 1947. Famed landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander died on Saturday. The award was approved by city council on May 18, days before Oberlander’s death. “On behalf of council, I extend my deepest sympathies to her family and friends. “Cornelia Oberlander was one of Vancouver’s most renowned Jewish residents, and during Jewish Heritage Month this May, we honour her outstanding accomplishments in bringing world-class landscape design to Canada, and to Vancouver in particular,” Mayor Kennedy Stewart said in a release. In a statement released Sunday, the City of Vancouver announced it has posthumously bestowed the Freedom of the City Award, the city’s highest honour, on Oberlander. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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