SAT-C01: Inside the LA Studio—Terremoto

Saturday, November 12, 2022

3:45pm – 5:00pm PT

Location: Moscone Center, Room 213-214

1.25 PDH, LA CES/non-HSW, AICP, FL

Guest Speaker(s)

David Godshall, ASLA

Principal / co-Founder
TERREMOTO
Los Angeles, California
Jennifer A. Jones, ASLA

Partner
Terremoto
Los Angeles, California
Alain Peauroi

Co-Founder and Partner
Terremoto
san franciso, California
Story Wiggins

Partner
Terremoto
Oakland, California

Moderator(s)

Mimi Zeiger

Terremoto is a twenty-six person landscape architecture studio with offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Terremoto creates well built, site-specific landscapes that challenge historical and contemporary landscape construction methods, materials, and formal conventions.

Terremoto views gardens and landscapes as expressions of the wider culture in which they exist, and thus regardless of a project’s scale or typology, aims to create environments that are aesthetically, ecologically, and metaphysically productive. An unabashed recognition of the importance of labor and a celebration of process permeates deeply throughout their practice, writing and built-work.

Learning Outcomes:

To detail the values and principles that guide Terremoto’s practice, both within their non-traditional internal studio culture + structure and how these values duly manifest in built work.
To explore the studio’s constant self-interrogation regarding design practice, labor, maintenance and care.
To describe Terremoto’s design ethos towards a more intimate and modest approach to garden-making and how to bring planting, materials, and labor closer together.
To discuss both the challenges and opportunities the firm is finding as it transitions from “small and scrappy” to a mid-sized office; the beauty and complexity of figuring out how to stay true to the original spirit of the office amidst growth.