Celebrated Canadian landscape architect Cornelia Hahn Oberlander passed away this weekend at age 99, one month shy of her 100th birthday.
German by birth, Oberlander fled Nazi Germany at age 18 and immigrated to the United States with her mother and sister. In 1944 she received a B.A. from Smith College, and in 1947 was among the first women to receive a degree in landscape architecture from Harvard Graduate School of Design. At Harvard, she met her husband, the late Canadian architect Peter Oberlander, who similarly fled Europe under Nazi rule.
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