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AP075.S1.1983.PR02
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for the Canadian Chancery on Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington D.C. Oberlander worked in this project from 1983-1989 with architect Arthur Erickson. Oberlander and Erickson received the National Landscape Award for the project landscape design. The design included a paved courtyard accessible through Pennsylvania Avenue and John Marshall Place Park. Oberlanded connected the park, designed by landscape architect Carol L. Johnson in 1983, to the Chancery site by adding a paving area in place of the closed street separating the two blocks. A terraced façade featuring a hanging garden with trees and roses was design as a way of extending the John Marshall Park up to the roof of the building. The project series contains sketches and working drawings for the landscaping, including planting plans, irrigation plans, planters details, sections and planters irrigation plans, and architectural plans provided for reference use. It also contains photographs of the building and the courtyard landscaping. The project is also documented through textual records, including concept notes by Oberlander, correspondence with clients, architects, suppliers and consultants, specifications, meetings notes, financial documents, promotional material and articles on the project. Source: Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages.
1983-1990
Canadian Chancery, Washington D.C. (1983-1990)
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AP075.S1.1983.PR02
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for the Canadian Chancery on Pennsylvania Avenue, in Washington D.C. Oberlander worked in this project from 1983-1989 with architect Arthur Erickson. Oberlander and Erickson received the National Landscape Award for the project landscape design. The design included a paved courtyard accessible through Pennsylvania Avenue and John Marshall Place Park. Oberlanded connected the park, designed by landscape architect Carol L. Johnson in 1983, to the Chancery site by adding a paving area in place of the closed street separating the two blocks. A terraced façade featuring a hanging garden with trees and roses was design as a way of extending the John Marshall Park up to the roof of the building. The project series contains sketches and working drawings for the landscaping, including planting plans, irrigation plans, planters details, sections and planters irrigation plans, and architectural plans provided for reference use. It also contains photographs of the building and the courtyard landscaping. The project is also documented through textual records, including concept notes by Oberlander, correspondence with clients, architects, suppliers and consultants, specifications, meetings notes, financial documents, promotional material and articles on the project. Source: Herrington, Susan. Cornelia Hahn Oberlander: Making the Modern Landscape, University of Virginia Press, 2014, 304 pages.
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1983-1990
drawings
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23 File
Landscaping designs
ARCH255047
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landscaping designs; one original landscaping sketch; Bank of Canada Landscape Presentation (van der Meulen and Associates Ltd., landscape architects), floor plans and details, information on plants
1978
Landscaping designs
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ARCH255047
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landscaping designs; one original landscaping sketch; Bank of Canada Landscape Presentation (van der Meulen and Associates Ltd., landscape architects), floor plans and details, information on plants
drawings
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23 File
1978
articles
5,000 Species of Trees
forest, deforestation, ecosystem, coffee, plantation, colonialism, extraction, Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte
8 September 2025
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AP151.S1.D3
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File documents an executed project for a parish house and cloister and for parking and planting for the Wayfarers' Chapel. The project for the Parish House and Cloister was part of the 1947 conception ffor the Chapel and was the third unit of construction, after the chapel proper and the campanile. In its conception, this project consisted of a cloister, cloister garden, and a community house, later renamed the parish house. The concept as it was developed between 1954 and 1957 resulted in the construction of the parish house and cloister; the cloister garden was developed separately at a later date, ca. 1959 (DR1987:0698). Material in the file was produced between 1953 and 1959. File contains conceptual, design and design development drawings with a few presentation and technical drawings.
[1953]-1959
Wayfarers' Chapel Parish House and Cloister
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AP151.S1.D3
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File documents an executed project for a parish house and cloister and for parking and planting for the Wayfarers' Chapel. The project for the Parish House and Cloister was part of the 1947 conception ffor the Chapel and was the third unit of construction, after the chapel proper and the campanile. In its conception, this project consisted of a cloister, cloister garden, and a community house, later renamed the parish house. The concept as it was developed between 1954 and 1957 resulted in the construction of the parish house and cloister; the cloister garden was developed separately at a later date, ca. 1959 (DR1987:0698). Material in the file was produced between 1953 and 1959. File contains conceptual, design and design development drawings with a few presentation and technical drawings.
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[1953]-1959
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AP075.S1.2014.PR02
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's work as consulting landscape architect for the landscape design of Zonda Ellis studio and store in shopping district of South Granville in Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project from 2014-2017 with Enns Gauthier Landscape Architects. It was completed in 2017. The project consists in designing upper decks for the four-storey building that includes a commercial and residential space for textile artist and fashion designer Zonda Ellis. The project series contains working drawings landscape master plan and planting plans, and also reference construction plans. The project is also documented through proposals and presentations by landscape architects, documentation and correspondence with landscape architects.
2014-2017
Zonda Nellis studio and store, Vancouver, British Columbia (2014)
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AP075.S1.2014.PR02
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's work as consulting landscape architect for the landscape design of Zonda Ellis studio and store in shopping district of South Granville in Vancouver, British Columbia. Oberlander worked on this project from 2014-2017 with Enns Gauthier Landscape Architects. It was completed in 2017. The project consists in designing upper decks for the four-storey building that includes a commercial and residential space for textile artist and fashion designer Zonda Ellis. The project series contains working drawings landscape master plan and planting plans, and also reference construction plans. The project is also documented through proposals and presentations by landscape architects, documentation and correspondence with landscape architects.
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2014-2017
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AP207.S1.2001.PR01
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The project series documents "Achipensierio" a series of installations designed by Pettena from 2001 to 2018. The installation consists of variations of a building frame either made of metal beams or trellis covered in plants or straw. The building frame is designed to change form and appears deconstructed depending on the point of view. "Described by Gianni Pettena as “a contemporary Stonehenge,” but also as “a lesson in spatial perception,” this work metaphorically reaffirms the idea that there are no longer any frontiers today, when one is referring to themes relating to physical space, between the sensibility of the architect and that of the environmental artist." [1] The "Archipensierio" installations were presented in various venues from 2001 to 2018, including: "Archipensierio 2" at the Manifesta 7 in Rovereto, in 2008; "Archipensierio 5" at the Court Carrée du Louvre, in Parigi, for FIAC 2009; and "Archipensierio 6" at the UMOCA, in Salt Lake City, in 2013. The project series contains sketches, elevations, plans, drawings and photographs of the installations. It also includes a small model for the Archipensierio I, 2001 installation. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/inst-archithoughts-2001/ (last accessed 22 January 2020).
2001-2018
Archipensierio [Architoughts] 2001
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AP207.S1.2001.PR01
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The project series documents "Achipensierio" a series of installations designed by Pettena from 2001 to 2018. The installation consists of variations of a building frame either made of metal beams or trellis covered in plants or straw. The building frame is designed to change form and appears deconstructed depending on the point of view. "Described by Gianni Pettena as “a contemporary Stonehenge,” but also as “a lesson in spatial perception,” this work metaphorically reaffirms the idea that there are no longer any frontiers today, when one is referring to themes relating to physical space, between the sensibility of the architect and that of the environmental artist." [1] The "Archipensierio" installations were presented in various venues from 2001 to 2018, including: "Archipensierio 2" at the Manifesta 7 in Rovereto, in 2008; "Archipensierio 5" at the Court Carrée du Louvre, in Parigi, for FIAC 2009; and "Archipensierio 6" at the UMOCA, in Salt Lake City, in 2013. The project series contains sketches, elevations, plans, drawings and photographs of the installations. It also includes a small model for the Archipensierio I, 2001 installation. Source: [1] Gianni Pettena website, https://www.giannipettena.it/italiano/opere-1/inst-archithoughts-2001/ (last accessed 22 January 2020).
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2001-2018
drawings, textual records
AP018.S1.1974.PR09.003
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This is a box containing sketches, details, colour schedule including colour samples, specifications, change orders, inspection reports, correspondence, documentation on furnishings, minutes of meeting for site meetings, documentation for trees and plants, and notebooks.
1978-1980
Working files, sketches, details, and project documentation, Toronto Humane Society, New Building, Toronto
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AP018.S1.1974.PR09.003
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This is a box containing sketches, details, colour schedule including colour samples, specifications, change orders, inspection reports, correspondence, documentation on furnishings, minutes of meeting for site meetings, documentation for trees and plants, and notebooks.
drawings, textual records
1978-1980
Project
AP075.S1.2008.PR01
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for the Leon and Thea Koerner University Centre at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. Oberlander worked on this project in 2013-2015 with architectural firm B Gordon Hlynsky Architect, who design the building located on North West Marine Drive. Oberlander's work consisted in designing the green space at the entrance of the building. Her landscape design included a concrete pathway linking the existing rose garden situated next to the building and the new building entrance, and rearraging the planting of existing rhododendrons and azaleas. The project series contains four lower floor plans showing landscape, correspondence, including correspondence with architects, specifications and financial documents.
2008-2015
Leon and Thea Koerner University Centre lower level, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia (2008)
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AP075.S1.2008.PR01
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Project series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's landscape project for the Leon and Thea Koerner University Centre at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver. Oberlander worked on this project in 2013-2015 with architectural firm B Gordon Hlynsky Architect, who design the building located on North West Marine Drive. Oberlander's work consisted in designing the green space at the entrance of the building. Her landscape design included a concrete pathway linking the existing rose garden situated next to the building and the new building entrance, and rearraging the planting of existing rhododendrons and azaleas. The project series contains four lower floor plans showing landscape, correspondence, including correspondence with architects, specifications and financial documents.
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2008-2015
Americanism, the pattern of idealization, imitation and criticisms with which European architects greeted American urban models and building practices, is the subject of Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960. The skyscrapers, massive industrial plants, and new sense of mobility and efficiency of North America became a(...)
Main galleries
14 June 1995 to 14 September 1995
Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960
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Americanism, the pattern of idealization, imitation and criticisms with which European architects greeted American urban models and building practices, is the subject of Scenes of the World to Come: European Architecture and the American Challenge, 1893–1960. The skyscrapers, massive industrial plants, and new sense of mobility and efficiency of North America became a(...)
Main galleries
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AP075.S3
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This series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's professional activities as a landscape architect, such as her involvement in professional activities, such as associations or committees, her attendance to landscape architecture seminars or conferences, conferences and lectures she gave, and articles and publications she wrote. It also documents her office records for consultancy work, her professional correspondence and the planning of the projects and other activities. It documents also awards and horours she received during her career, for specific projects, her work as landscape architect or for her involvement in the community. The series contains predomimantly administrative records, such as professional correspondence, documents related to her consultant work for private or public projects, promotional material, and articles written about her, documents related to interviews she gave and recordings of these interviews. It also comprises documents related to her involvement in associations or committees, such as correspondence and meetings documents, documents from her participation to conferences and seminars, such as proceedings, and event planning documents, and her research or draft texts for her lectures and publications. The series also contains awards and honours she received, and related documents, and a collection of Oberlander's industry catalogues she used in her office to order supplies, plants or seeds for her landscape projects.
1949-2019
Professional activities and office records
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AP075.S3
Description:
This series documents Cornelia Hahn Oberlander's professional activities as a landscape architect, such as her involvement in professional activities, such as associations or committees, her attendance to landscape architecture seminars or conferences, conferences and lectures she gave, and articles and publications she wrote. It also documents her office records for consultancy work, her professional correspondence and the planning of the projects and other activities. It documents also awards and horours she received during her career, for specific projects, her work as landscape architect or for her involvement in the community. The series contains predomimantly administrative records, such as professional correspondence, documents related to her consultant work for private or public projects, promotional material, and articles written about her, documents related to interviews she gave and recordings of these interviews. It also comprises documents related to her involvement in associations or committees, such as correspondence and meetings documents, documents from her participation to conferences and seminars, such as proceedings, and event planning documents, and her research or draft texts for her lectures and publications. The series also contains awards and honours she received, and related documents, and a collection of Oberlander's industry catalogues she used in her office to order supplies, plants or seeds for her landscape projects.
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1949-2019