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LA Guest Lecture: David Godshall, Co-Founder & Principal of TERREMOTO

Submitted by dfoolen on August 11th, 2026 4:18 PM
Date: 
Thursday, November 12th, 2026 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
Location: 

Landscape Architecture Pit (lobby)

University of Guelph - Landscape Architecture Guest Lecture Series presents:

David Godshall, Co-Founder and Principal of TERREMOTO [1].  

Lecture Title: "Surfing a Tsunami: Landscapes that Glide Amidst Uncertain Futures"

David Godshall is the co-founder and a principal at the TERREMOTO, a California based landscape architecture dsign studio. With his team of twenty-eight people, David endeavors to design and build landscapes that are equally responsive to region, place, community and this moment in the world. Through examining the tools with which landscapes and gardens are created (land, labor, materials and ecology), TERREMOTO hopes to build gardens that are omni-positive and well equipped to respond to the bigness of this moment. 

vegettion, grasses and trees surround Sea Ranch LodgeImage courtesy of Terremoto:  Sea Ranch Lodge.  

This lecture is supported by Maglin [2] and the Ontario Association of Landscape Architects [3].

Contacts:  Landscape Architecture Guest Lecture Coordinator: Nadia Amoroso [4], Associate Professor, and LA Guest Lecture Student Assistant: Sydney Black [5].

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Source URL:https://www.uoguelph.ca/sedrd/events/2026/11/la-guest-lecture-david-godshall-co-founder-principal-terremoto

Links
[1] https://terremoto.la/ [2] https://www.maglin.com/ [3] https://www.oala.ca/ [4] mailto:nadia.amoroso@uoguelph.ca [5] mailto:sblack15@uoguelph.ca