Reciprocal Landscapes by Jane Hutton

Reciprocal Landscapes by Jane Hutton

Reciprocal Landscapes: Cases in Material Movement traces five everyday landscape construction materialsfertilizer, stone, steel, trees, and woodfrom seminal public landscapes in New York City, back to where they came from.

"Reciprocal Landscapes shows us what matters about landscape by revealing what matter is doing in it – where it came from, why it was taken, and how it was extracted, worked, fought over, and transportedOriginal in conception, rigorous in execution, Hutton’s book is nothing less than a brilliant synthesis of materialisms ‘historical’ and ‘new’; an incisive model for the critical analysis of landscape." – Douglas Spencer, Director of Graduate Education and Associate Professor, Iowa State University, USA

"Reciprocal Landscapes shows us what matters about landscape by revealing what matter is doing in it — where it came from, why it was taken and how it was extracted, worked, fought over and transported. Original in conception, rigorous in execution, Hutton’s book is nothing less than a brilliant synthesis of materialisms ‘historical’ and ‘new’; an incisive model for the critical analysis of landscape." - Douglas Spencer, Director of Graduate Education and Associate Professor, Department of Architecture, Iowa State University

Jane Hutton is a landscape architect and teacher whose research looks at the expanded relations of material practice in design, examining linkages between the sources and construction sites of common building materials. Hutton is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Waterloo.

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ISBN 13	9781138830684
ISBN 10	1138830682
Title	Reciprocal Landscapes
Author	Jane Hutton
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2019-09-20
Number of pages	232
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