Master of Landscape Architecture Director Rosetta S. Elkin received The John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize for her publication Landscapes of Retreat, presented by the UVA Center for Cultural Landscapes’ Landscape Studies Initiative. The Prize is awarded to the author of a book published within the past three years on a subject that breaks new ground in method or interpretation. A public lecture is scheduled at the University of Virginia School of Architecture, March 20, 2025 at 5 PM. Please join if you are in Charlottesville!
“In Landscapes of Retreat, Elkin shares varied lessons from the multi-generational lived experiences of indigenous communities in changing landscapes across several continents. in doing so, she offers a hopeful perspective on retreat as a mode of climate adaptation–a cultural practice of living with, not against, the more than human world. The J.B Jackson Prize jury was unanimous in our selection; we offer the highest praise for this book and its author, a scholar of rare honestly, transparency and vulnerability whose account of her research methods is as fascinating as the subject of her book.”
Professor Elizabeth Meyer, Chair of the J.B. Jackson Prize Jury, UVA Center for Cultural Landscapes
Landscapes of Retreat is in its second edition, and available for purchase at Printed Matter in NYC and Head-Hi in Brooklyn.