TERREMOTO | How to Make a Radical Garden in a World of Broken Systems
How to Make a Radical Garden in a World of Broken Systems
TERREMOTO finds itself making gardens and landscapes in a deeply troubled world. Our material supply chains are extractive and hard on the environment; labor practices often exploitative and unjust; mainstream construction methods frequently orient towards a scorched earth, tabula rasa approach to building. Our studio believes we need to find new ways of making new things, of doing more with less and that the time is NOW for landscape architecture to redefine the way it interacts with Land, Labor, Materials and Ecology. As we lean into material and spiritual austerity, we discover fertile new territory.
David Godshall, Co-Founder and Partner – Los Angeles Office
David Godshall is a landscape architect, horticultural theorist and leads with Terremoto office in Los Angeles with Jenny Jones. David’s strategic approach to design is inherently rooted in philosophy and the idea that ecology, horticulture and landscape have transformative physical and metaphorical impacts upon a person and a place. David received a Master’s degree Cum Laude from UC Berkeley after receiving a BA Cum Laude from UC Santa Barbara.
Jenny Jones, Partner – Los Angeles Office
Jenny is a landscape architect from Virginia with a background in the science and theory of the environment. Her multidisciplinary training and her experience as a science teacher shape her approach to landscape design, which considers integrating natural systems, encouragement of exploratory learning, and thinking at all scales of space and time. Jenny received a Master’s degree in Landscape Architecture from The University of Virginia and a BA from UVA in Environmental Studies.