Order

Landscapes of Retreat. 

Head Hi

Printed Matter

Idea Books

K. Verlag

Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation. 

University of Minnesota Press

Barnes & Noble

Tiny Taxonomy: Individual Plants in Landscape Architecture. 

Actar

Barnes & Noble

William Stout Architectural Books

Read

"Nature Without Ecology" Piet Oudolf at Work. (Landscape Arcitecture Magazine)

"The Living Environment" Or, Designers Are Stuck in the Holocene. (New Geographies)

"The Timber Culture Act" - Chapter 4, Confronting Treelessness, in Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation. (Arnoldia)

"Practice Landscape" (PLAT 11)

"Tabula Rasa" Designing South Florida. (OASE 110)

"An Impermanent Inventory" Plant Collections for a Changing Climate. (Arnoldia)

"The Future of the Future - The Design-Research of Sponsland." (Archined)

"A Walk Through Time, Part I" - A guided walk at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.

"The Politics of the Rhizosphere" - Rosetta S. Elkin talks to Anna Tsing about partnering, pathogens, and profit. (Harvard Design Magazine)

"The Prefixes of Forestation" - Questioning legacies that convert biomes from desert to forest and from forest back to field. (Harvard Design Magazine)

"Editing Pedagogy" - Foregoing the obvious to explore the nuances, the connections, and the materials that amalgamate across scales.

"Planting Coastal Infrastructure" - Moving beyond restoration to dissolve the limiting dichotomy between green and grey infrastructure. (Climate Change Management)

"Dryland Forests" - Desertification and the rise of defense ecology. (Portal 9)

"Plant Life" - Rosetta S. Elkin talks to Stephannie Fell and Francisco Quintana about "plant blindness." (ARQ)  

"A Perspective on Taxonomy" - Exploring the origins of natural classification. (Actar)

"Planting the Desert" - Highlighting the tension between engineering infrastructure and cultivating healthy ecosystems. (Revising Green Infrastructure)

"From Empire to Ecology" - How acknowledging plant's independent behavior can help us untangle assumptions of the Anthropocene. (America Academy in Rome)

"Retreat vs. Rebuild" - A collection of prompts and papers framing the Retreat vs. Rebuild colloquium.

Press

Book Review: The Mass-Produced Forest. "A review of Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation by Rosetta S. Elkin." By Jennifer Wolch. (Landscape Architecture Magazine)

"Matthan on Elkin, 'Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation.'" By Tanya Matthan. (H-Environment)

"Knock on Wood: Solutions don’t always grow in trees." By John Baglow (Literary Review of Canada)

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