New $100,000 prize named after groundbreaking B.C. landscape architect Cornelia Oberlander

A new international prize has put the spotlight back on the career of Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, the groundbreaking Vancouver-based landscape architect who was an early champion of ecological design.

The Cultural Landscape Foundation, a Washington D.C.-based non-profit, announced a new $100,000 US international landscape architecture prize named in her honour that will be awarded every two years starting in 2021 —  the centenary of Oberlander's birth.