Join us in thanking David Godshall and Danielle VonLehe for presenting the 2025 PAC Spring Lecture!
A massive thank you to David Godshall and Danielle VonLehe of TERREMOTO for taking the time to not only give this year’s lecture, but also visit our advanced studios and give feedback on student projects!
Thank you to everyone who attended our 2025 PAC Spring Lecture: Doing Right by Land and Each Other; Gardens for the Next World. A big THANK YOU to our Professional Advisory Council for sponsoring the event, and to WASLA for offering the LA/CES continuing education credit!
It was a joy to see so many engaged and interested students and members of the community attend such a relevant and timely lecture.
If you missed it, please find the full video available on our PAC webpage HERE.
More Information about David and Danielle
David Godshall is a landscape architect, horticultural theorist and the co-founder and design director of the TERREMOTO office in Los Angeles, which he founded with Alain Peauroi in 2012. Over the past twelve years, TERREMOTO has grown quickly and established itself as a driving force in the world of landscape architecture. David’s strategic approach to design is inherently rooted in philosophy and the idea that ecology, horticulture and landscape have transformative physical and spiritual impacts upon humans and non-humans.
David received a master’s degree Cum Laude from UC Berkeley after receiving a BA Cum Laude from UC Santa Barbara. He holds CLARB registration in California and is an ASLA Olmsted Scholar, representing UC Berkeley’s selection the year of his graduation. Prior to founding Terremoto, David worked at Peter Walker and Partners in Berkeley, California and was a project manager at Surface Design in San Francisco.
Terremoto’s work has been published in Architectural Digest, Landscape Architecture Magazine, Sunset Magazine, The New York Times T Magazine, World Landscape Architecture Magazine, Landezine, Elle Decor and Gardenista.
David has served as a guest critic in the landscape architecture departments UC Berkeley, USC, and lectured recently at Woodbury University, Auburn University, the Harvard GSD, The Rhode Island School of Design, UC Berkeley and was a guest panelist for conferences held by The Garden Conservancy and the American Society of Landscape Architecture.
Danielle (Dani) VonLehe is a Landscape Designer at Terremoto in Los Angeles. She received her MLA at University of Southern California where she was the 2020 LAF Olmsted Scholar, MA in Aesthetics in Politics from CalArts, BFA in Photomedia at University of Washington, and BA in English at University of Washington. Dani’s interdisciplinary work in photography, writing, and garden-making explores the affective connection between space and experience.