Jane Mah Hutton (she/her)

Jane Mah Hutton
Associate Professor

Biography

Jane Mah Hutton is a landscape architect whose research focuses on the expanded relationships of the act of building – from material flows to labour movements. One stream of Mah Hutton’s work examines the movement of materials as they pass from production landscapes (plantations, quarries, factories) to designed constructions (buildings, landscapes, infrastructure) through demolition and disposal or re-use. She recently completed the book,  Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements (Routledge, 2019) that traces five emblematic landscape materials that ended up in New York City over the past century. Other publications include an edited volume, Landscript 5: Material Culture – Assembling and Disassembling Landscapes (Jovis, 2017), and Wood Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial (Actar, 2020), co-edited with Daniel Ibanez and Kiel Moe. Her writing has been published in venues such as the  Journal of Architectural Education, Journal of Landscape Architecture, Harvard Design Magazine, Landscape Architecture Magazine,  and is a co-founding editor of the journal  Scapegoat: Architecture, Landscape, Political Economy.  Mah Hutton’s research has been awarded the EDRA Great Places Book Award (2020), the Robert and Stephanie Olmsted Fellowship (Macdowell, 2019), and a Research Fellowship at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (2019). 

Research Interests

  • Architecture
  • Material flows
  • Urban change
  • construction materials
  • landscape architecture
  • environmental change

Education

  • 2004, Master of Landscape Architecture Landscape & Design, University of Toronto, Canada
  • 1999, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Biology and Environmental Science, McGill University, Canada

Teaching*

  • ARCH 225 - Theory and Design of the Contemporary Landscape
    • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024
  • ARCH 293 - Design Studio
    • Taught in 2019, 2022, 2024
  • ARCH 492 - Design Studio
    • Taught in 2021
  • ARCH 610 - Architectural Research and Analysis
    • Taught in 2019
  • ARCH 692 - Thesis Research and Design Studio I
    • Taught in 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024

* Only courses taught in the past 5 years are displayed.

Graduate studies