It’s a great pleasure to share a thoughtful new review of Landscapes of Retreat by Rosetta S. Elkin, published by K. Verlag in second edition earlier this year, now featured on Landezine.
In her piece, “Retreat as Approach”, critic Urška Škerl explores the book’s proposition of retreat not as a passive withdrawal but as a generative, design-relevant practice that unsettles entrenched ideas of progress, control, and landscape productivity.
Škerl writes:
“The book resists the urge to quickly define what retreat is. Instead, it performs it—lingering, looping, dwelling, allowing space and time for thought, transformation, and escape.”
Read the full review here: Retreat as Approach – Landscapes of Retreat by Rosetta S. Elkin (Landezine)
We’re grateful to Landezine and Urška Škerl for this generous engagement—and to everyone who continues to read, share, and circulate the book, which was awarded the 2024 J.B. Jackson Book Prize in Landscape Studies.