Description of event
Terremoto is one of the most innovative, responsive, and inspiring practices today. With offices in Los Angeles and Berkeley, CA, it was founded by David Godshall and Alain Peauroi with a mission to investigate ideas and culture through garden and landscape design. The studio embraces “ebullient” explorations of form while challenging inherited conventions of construction and materiality. It respects, honors, and credits the human beings who build landscape projects, and it seeks to create “omni-positive” landscapes that are “fair, just, and generous in their relationships to labor, materials, and ecology.” In 2021, Terremoto won the Landezine International Landscape Award for Office of the Year; in 2023, they received the Emerging Voices award from the Architectural League of New York; and last year, they won the prestigious Cooper Hewitt National Design Award for Landscape Architecture.
This lecture is made possible with support from the Hideo Sasaki Lecture Endowment, a resource established by alumni and friends in 1983 to recognize Hideo Sasaki (BFA LA 1946) for his outstanding career as a landscape architect, planner, and educator and his receipt of an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Illinois in 1982.
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For more information about this and other events in our Spring 2026 lecture series, please contact Prof. David L. Hays.