Courageous by Design October 15, 2021
The future for landscape architecture is immense. And if landscape architects don't take the opportunity at this point, while our governments are waffling on climate change, if they don't learn this climate change inside-out, namely storm-water management, limiting footprints, using plants that don't need much maintenance or water, if they don't seize that opportunity, then the landscape architects are asleep under the ground.
-Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Oral History (2008)
Cornelia Hahn Oberlander’s declaration—a challenge to her fellow landscape architects—is the impetus for an October 2021 symposium about the role of the profession of landscape architecture in addressing climate change. Oberlander is the namesake of the new Cornelia Hahn Oberlander International Landscape Architecture Prize, which was conceived by () to honor designers who, like Oberlander, are “exceptionally talented, creative, courageous, and visionary.” Addressing climate change was a core focus of Oberlander’s practice for more than 30 years, and the symposium will serve as the inaugural Oberlander Prize Forum, the first of many fora to be developed in association with the newly established Oberlander Prize.
Organized and presented by , this daylong symposium will fo