Author Archives: Jacqueline Ashby

“When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves” ~ Viktor E. Frankl. The Constructed Environment Conference 2014 accepting proposals. Graduate Scholar Awards 2014. Friday Five with Sir Terence Conran. Richard Rogers: Inside Out. For Flood Prevention, We Need to Raise Our Game (And Flatten Our Roofs). The Evolution of the College Library. The Cost of Higher Education: is up the only way?

Down the Rabbit Hole (DtHR) is a gathering of articles, videos, links, and resources on design, education, and inspiration.

“The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.” ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein.  Future Cities.  Solving the Mysteries of Brunelleschi’s Dome.  Lu Xinjian Tracks Your City’s DNA.  Why Are Finnish Kids So Smart?  Five Technology Trends That Will Transform Teaching & Learning.  3D-Printed ‘Magic Arms’ Let Emma Play and Hug.  College and University Facilities.  A Father-Daughter Conversation About Public Education.

Down the Rabbit Hole (DtHR) is a gathering of articles, videos, links, and resources on design, education, and inspiration.

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” ~ Mark Twain.  Economics Building of the University of Navarra, Pamplona.  Architecture & Design Film Festival 2014 – Los Angeles.  Archollective: An online pin-up space for architecture students.  University of Oregon Hatfield-Dowlin Complex.  If you build it: the rise and rise of self-build.  Los Gatos Public Library.  Geometric sand castles.  A Dreamer’s Childhood.

Down the rabbit hole is a gathering of articles, videos, links, and resources on design, education, and inspiration.

Shareabouts is flexible mapping platform that could be used to orient and connect new students to their college town?! Another tool for campus planning departments to bridge the divide.

Learn through comparative analysis as well as develop a qualitative understanding of the urban jungle. Vancouver, where are you? To learn more about this project, check out the short video and download the white paper.

“I think we’re moving away from the image of the architect as a master builder, towards someone who is much more of a specialist in the built environment” ~ Alison Killing. Read more on designcurial.

On my breakfast table this morning, A Daily Dose of Architecture on Washburn:

“Urban design influences everything but controls nothing” ~ Alexandros Washburn, former Chief Urban Designer of the NYC Department of City Planning and Author of The Nature of Urban Design

“We do not know how to program our computers, nor do we care. We spend much more time and energy trying to figure out how to use them to program one another.” ~ Douglas Rushkoff, Media Theorist and Author of “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”