Session 2: In Conversation: Christine Ten Eyck, FASLA + David Godshall, ASLA - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

Recorded On: 07/29/2026

Only available as part of a package

For years, ASLA has invited landscape architecture firms to pull back the curtain on their work, culture, and creative process through our beloved "Inside the LA Studio" series. This year, we are turning the format on its head.

Inspired by the celebrated "Actors on Actors" interview tradition—where two artists who deeply respect each other's craft sit down for an unscripted, peer-to-peer conversation—ASLA 2026 introduces a bold new session format.

In this exclusive sneak preview, two prominent landscape architects who know each other's work intimately will sit down for an honest, wide-ranging conversation about the profession, the creative process, and what it means to design in a world that is always in motion. No moderator. No script. Just two practitioners who have earned the right to ask each other the hard questions.

This is your first look at a new kind of ASLA session—one that will return in full at the in-person conference in Los Angeles this September.

Learning objectives:

See how a celebration of process can permeate practice and built work.
Understand the values and principles that guide practice and studio culture, and how those values manifest in built work.
Explore the challenges and opportunities as firms and practices grow and evolve.

Christine E. Ten Eyck, FASLA, PLA

President, Landscape Architect

Ten Eyck Landscape Architects

Christine Ten Eyck, FASLA, PLA, is the founder of Ten Eyck Landscape Architects in Austin, Texas. Since the inception of her company 28 years ago, Christine and her thirteen-person firm have drawn upon intuition, experience, and knowledge to build a body of work which celebrates the inherent beauty and culture of Texas and the southwest, pioneering contemporary regionalism in the southwest. Her projects range from urban design, parks, botanical gardens, university campuses to private residential gardens and ranches. She received her BLA from Texas Tech University and was made a Fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 2003.

David Godshall, ASLA

Landscape Architect, Co-Founder and Principal

TERREMOTO

David is the co-founder and a principal at the Los Angeles office of TERREMOTO. He believes that landscape architecture should rigorously examine the tools with which it creates: land, labor, materials and ecology. Through said ongoing invstigations into the nature of the relationships of the tools with which we create, landscape architects can come to build gardens that are just, fair, generous and beautiful to the creatures, land and communities they serve.

Scott Rice, ASLA, PLA, LEED AP, CASp (Moderator)

President / Managing Principal

Community Works Design Group

Scott Rice, ASLA, is the President and Managing Principal of Community Works Design Group (CWDG), a medium-sized landscape architecture and accessibility planning firm based in Southern California. In addition to nearly 25 years with CWDG, Scott transitioned from employee to full owner of the firm through a succession plan. Scott is one of only three licensed landscape architects that also hold Certified Access Specialist (CASp) credentials. He recently completed his term as President of the Southern California Chapter of ASLA. When not working or volunteering, Scott enjoys spending time in parks and outdoor spaces with his wife and five children.