Awards

• Winner of the Center for Cultural Landscapes at the University of Virginia and Foundation for Landscape Studies 2021 David R. Coffin Prize for Manuscript
• Winner of the Center for Cultural Landscapes at the University of Virginia and Foundation for Landscape Studies 2022 The John Brinckerhoff Jackson Book Prize
• Winner of the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of British Columbia 2022 Margolese Design for Living Prize

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"""Bay Lexicon is a beautiful, masterful story of landscapes and the processes that shape and make them. Through a compelling synergy of drawing and defining, revealing and relating, Jane Wolff builds a simple but powerfully legible language of landscape – a language urgently needed to build shared meaning and stewardship of place."" Nina-Marie Lister, Toronto Metropolitan University ""The toolkit Jane Wolff has devised can be, and should be, used as a template for understanding a large number of hybrid places that are threatened by sea-level rise and climate change."" Mark L. Hineline, Michigan State University and author of Ground Truth: A Guide to Tracking Climate Change at Home “One of the major attractions of both Delta Primer and Bay Lexicon is that the reader is never lost. The maps and the texts mean that even a stranger to the bay and the delta soon knows her way around. Wolff’s love of beauty also goes a long way toward making friends and converting citizens to her undogmatic ways of looking at land and water, not as two alien places separated from one another, but interconnected, and in a sense twins and doubles of one another, two halves of a whole that make up our blue planet.” Counterpunch"

Bay Lexicon is a beautiful, masterful story of landscapes and the processes that shape and make them. Through a compelling synergy of drawing and defining, revealing and relating, Jane Wolff builds a simple but powerfully legible language of landscape - a language urgently needed to build shared meaning and stewardship of place. Nina-Marie Lister, Ryerson University The toolkit Jane Wolff has devised can be, and should be, used as a template for understanding a large number of hybrid places that are threatened by sea-level rise and climate change. Mark L. Hineline, Michigan State University and author of Ground Truth: A Guide to Tracking Climate Change at Home One of the major attractions of both Delta Primer and Bay Lexicon is that the reader is never lost. The maps and the texts mean that even a stranger to the bay and the delta soon knows her way around. Wolff's love of beauty also goes a long way toward making friends and converting citizens to her undogmatic ways of looking at land and water, not as two alien places separated from one another, but interconnected, and in a sense twins and doubles of one another, two halves of a whole that make up our blue planet. Counterpunch

Bay Lexicon is a beautiful, masterful story of landscapes and the processes that shape and make them. Through a compelling synergy of drawing and defining, revealing and relating, Jane Wolff builds a simple but powerfully legible language of landscape - a language urgently needed to build shared meaning and stewardship of place. Nina-Marie Lister, Ryerson University The toolkit Jane Wolff has devised can be, and should be, used as a template for understanding a large number of hybrid places that are threatened by sea-level rise and climate change. Mark L. Hineline, Michigan State University and author of Ground Truth: A Guide to Tracking Climate Change at Home

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Jane Wolff is associate professor at the University of Toronto's Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.

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