2025 LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS' DIRECTORY

This issue's deep dive into landscape architecture comes with a refreshing shift in our long-standing Architects' Directory, our annual listing of promising practices from across the globe. This year, our survey of exciting studios goes outside, as we sample the international talent that is transforming the environment around us - shaping everything but our buildings. While the directory traditionally focuses on residential work and emerging professionals, this year's profiles spotlight creatives in the landscape sector, casting a net far and wide, from young to established practices, exploring diverse iterations of what landscape is, and spanning Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and Oceania. Welcome then to our 2025 Landscape Architects' Directory

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Transparency in all its forms plays a pivotal role in Terremoto's ethos. The landscape architecture practice was founded in LA in 2013 by David Godshall and Alain Peauroi (who passed away this January 'the biggest thing that our studio has endured to date,' says Godshall); but now, its team runs as a thriving collective and has a second base in San Francisco.

Its openness about its values - ecological, philosophical, social, moral - makes it a powerful proposition in its field and defines both its methods and output. 'It's important to our team to practice in ways that reflect these beliefs. For example, we have a stance on labour, in that we proactively acknowledge, credit and advocate for the individuals and crews who build our projects, and this public stance is almost non-existent in our industry. Speak up!' says Godshall.

Its openness about its values - ecological, philosophical, social, moral - makes it a powerful proposition in its field and defines both its methods and output. ‘It’s important to our team to practice in ways that reflect these beliefs. For example, we have a stance on labour, in that we proactively acknowledge, credit and advocate for the individuals and crews who build our projects, and this public stance is almost nonexistent in our industry. Speak up!’ says Godshall.

It was an early encounter with the book City Form and Natural Process by Michael Hough, following a suggestion from his mother to look into landscape architecture, that led Godshall to his current career path. Blown away by the depth and importance of the book’s thesis, which examines ‘why wildlife in urban environments was mostly present in feral, wild or non-designed spaces,’ he decided to go into the profession and change that. ‘Why shouldn’t landscape be purposefully designed for wildlife, too?’ he wondered.