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LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

photo by: Ihor Pona

lecture co-organized with the Hawaii Chapter of the ASLA

SPRING2014 www.arch.hawaii.eduLECTURE SERIES

FEBwednesday 26 www.corneliaoberlander.caCORNELIA OBERLANDER SPEAKER BIO: Recognized as a national treasure in Canada, Cornelia Oberlander, FASLA, FCSLA has been creating innovative sustainable landscapes in collaboration with preeminent architects for more than sixty years. Selected projects include in with its early intensive green roof, the U.B.C. Museum of Anthropology, the green roof, the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa, the Canadian Embassy in Berlin, New York Times Building courtyard and green roof, Vandusen Botanical Garden Visitor Centre in Vancouver, the Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly Building in , and East Three School in Inuvik.

Asked to describe her experiences working in the northern environments of Yellowknife and Inuvik, Oberlander refers to the following quote: “‘What does one do when visiting a new place,’ he asked a man. His reply was simple. ‘I listen, that’s all. I listen to what the land is saying. I walk around it and strain my senses in appreciation of it for a long time before I, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa myself, ever speak a word. Entered in this manner the land will School of Architecture open up’” (from Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez). 2410 Campus Road 6PM Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96822 In 2012 the ASLA Medal was bestowed on Cornelia > Oberlander “in recognition of her unfaltering leadership and award-winning work in postwar landscape architecture t | 808.956.7225 in Canada and the United States. She is the embodiment of f | 808.956.7778 the multidisciplinary landscape architect who perpetually e | [email protected] pursues aesthetic, ecological, and technical possibilities to > achieve worldwide-community well-being.”