Jane Hutton is a landscape architect whose research approaches the act of building as an ecosystem of relationships encompassing everything from material flows to labor movements. Her research connects contemporary urban constructions back to plantations, quarries, and factories, mapping labor movements alongside the act of building.
Hutton is an associate professor at the Waterloo University School of Architecture. She holds a master of landscape architecture from the University of Toronto and a bachelor of science in biology and environmental science from McGill University. Her book Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements (Routledge, 2019) traces five emblematic landscape materials that ended up in New York City over the past century. Additional publications include Landscript 5: Material Culture (2017) and Wood Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial (2020). A cofounding editor of Scapegoat: Architecture, Landscape, Political Economy, Hutton has received research fellowships from MacDowell and the Canadian Centre for Architecture and is the recipient of the 2020 EDRA Great Places Book Award.