Registration Eligibility
ASLA online learning opportunities are open to all. ASLA members may purchase this presentation at a reduced rate. This is a 2022 conference session.
Start Date
12/12/2024
End Date
12/11/2026
Description
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.
Distance Learning
Yes
Course Equivalency
No
Subjects
Business Practices / Contracts / HR
Health, Safety and Welfare
No
Hours
1.25
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.
Instructors
David Godshall, ASLA; Jennifer A. Jones, ASLA; Alain Peauroi; Story Wiggins; Mimi Zeiger
Course Codes
Provider
American Society of Landscape Architects