Reciprocal Landscapes

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

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.

1. Inexhaustible Terrain: Guano from the Chincha Islands, Peru to Central Park, 1862 2. Range of Motions: Granite from Vinalhaven, Maine to Broadway, 1892 3. Rivers of Steel: Steel from Pittsburgh to Riverside Park, 1937 4. Breathing with Trees: London Plane Trees from Rikers Island to 7th Avenue, 1959 5. Arresting Decay: Tropical Hardwood from Para, Brazil to the High Line, 2009