Talking Architecture is a series of live interviews hosted by the course Talking Architecture (VIS 2359), integrally produced by students, with the support of Instructor Diego Grass and TA Selwyn Bachus. These events are spin-offs of GSD-sponsored public lectures held during the semester. They intend to extend the conversations between these guests and the GSD community.
In this fifth session, we talked with David Godshall, co-founder of TERREMOTO Landscape. TERREMOTO is a formally and conceptually adventurous office for landscape architecture based in Los Angeles and San Francisco, California. TERREMOTO creates well-built, site-specific landscapes that respond to clients’ needs while simultaneously challenging historical and contemporary landscape construction methods, materials, and formal conventions. Their design approach is post-Internet, critically regionalist, and respectfully inflammatory. TERREMOTO mines the omnipotence of intentional inexactitude and flirts openly with illegibility. They strive, in many cases, to do as little as possible. Their goal is to build gardens and landscapes not for this civilization, but rather, the next one.
This interview was conducted on April 6, 2022, in Harvard University Northwest Science Building courtyard. Students were in control of all aspects of the interview (q&a, staging, editing). The team included: Damian Bolden, Trent Bullion, Gabriela Davila Rivera, Lauren Duda, Paola Foster, Graham Jordan, Yang Sun Lim, Malvin Wibowo, Jessie Xiang, and Oscar Zamora.
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