"From House to HOME " Magazine February/March 2008 issue, pg. 16-19. "Architecture Aglow with Light"...Home design that elevates the spirit and uplifts the soul. Architect John Ash describes the kitchen as the focal point of the home from which everything else transpires...
"Build It Green " Times-Standard 2.01.07 ""Sustainability. I love it. Now what? How do I implement?”"
"Plan It Green...create your future" Times-Standard 1.11.07 ""Green buildings are well-lit, well-ventilated and thermally conditioned structures that provide a comfortable, healthy and desirable indoor environment. They use less energy to operate, create less waste during their construction and generally have less impact on the environment.""
"Real Living Column Taking a Pregnant Pause" Times-Standard 11.16.06 "I have just returned from a week of meetings in Los Angeles on the Madame Tussaud's Museum we are designing in Hollywood. Because of its location next to the Chinese Theater and the Academy Awards' Kodak Theater, and because of its avant-garde design, it will be a focal point for Hollywood media attention around the world."
"Redefining Storage with Polyproplene" Times-Standard 11.09.06 "One material that many of our local outdoor explorers and kayakers cover their backside with is polypropylene, a highly recyclable material that is capable of reincarnating itself as different products."
"Understanding Your Property as a Watershed" Times-Standard 10.26.06 "Designing and building a bioswale for your own yard -- sounds like nonsense, but I said from the outset that I would be discussing sustainability issues that can happen in your own backyard."
"Shedding Light on Adding Solar to Your Home, Business" Times-Standard 10.12.06 ""RCEA is a local joint powers authority. We are located at 517 Fifth St. in Eureka between F and G. It's a partnership of all seven incorporated cities and the county government. Their goal is to help develop sustainable energy -- efficient, clean, renewable, and affordable energy for Humboldt County.""
"Solar-Energy Close Up with a Trio of Local Experts" Times-Standard 10.05.06 ""Many appliances that you think are off are consuming energy. Your microwave, stereo, and TV sets (that have an “off but ready” mode) are consuming a significant amount of energy when they're off.""
"Creating Innovations in Sustainability" Times-Standard 09.28.06 "Green product innovation seeks to take our resource-based economy -- of forest-based building products -- to the next step of sustainable building products."
"Designing for Daylight" Times-Standard 09.21.06 "Our goal was to work with PEC daylighting experts and our own Alzheimer facility designer, Betsy Brawley to design a truly therapeutic environment for our Alzheimer clients."
"Tracing the Patterns of Light" Times-Standard 09.14.06 "PG&E's Pacific Energy Center agreed to test our models on their Heliodyne and Overcast Sky Simulators. Our goal was to create a balanced daylighted environment for our Alzheimer's clients using the facility."
"Thinking Globally, Heating Locally" Times-Standard 09.07.06 " What are the benefits of installing radiant floor heating? There are many. It can be installed under any type of flooring including tile, marble, wood, carpet, linoleum and concrete. It also saves energy-- 40 percent or more in energy costs over forced-air heating systems."
"Letting Our Sun Sustain Our Homes" Times-Standard 08.24.06 "I think most of us share in the idea that we are not anti-sustainability people; sustainability just has not been made very relevant to our day to day living."
"Soaking Up Some Energy Savings" Times-Standard 08.10.06 "I would like to see our own community get more involved in inventing and licensing new “green” building products."
"A Pantry for Storing Light" Times-Standard 08.03.06 "For daylighting to work it needs to control three factors -- quantity of light, heat and glare. "
"The Impact of Light" Times-Standard 07.27.06 "The impact of light on people with Alzheimer's is critical to how they experience the spaces they are in. I am trying to design a therapeutic environment for them that increases mobility."
"Let the Daylight In" Times-Standard 07.20.06 "Daylighting is adding windows and skylights to a building to bring more light into the interior spaces, making your home healthier and more livable. "
"Getting Real" Times-Standard 07.13.06 "Editor's note: Local architect John Ash kicks off his weekly column today in a new T-S section we call “Real Living.” Ash, who has offices in Old Town Eureka and Los Angeles, will focus on architecture, living spaces and the concept of sustainable design. "
"A Hot Tub for the Sullivans" Eureka Reporter 05.31.06 ""It pleases me that you have begun to insist that everything I design for you be sustainable," I say."
"The Jesus Christ of Golf" Eureka Reporter 05.19.06 "Recently, while I was putting away at the Eureka municipal golf course, I was asked by a man, known as the ‘Jesus Christ of Golf’ to join him and an elderly gentleman, to play the last three holes of the course."
"Clients Come First, Real or Not" Eureka Reporter 05.16.06 "In my work I want to design spaces for my clients that are truly about then, not some marketing idea they have swallowed."
"A Deck for All Seasons, Part 2" Eureka Reporter 04.12.06 "The design process tends to bring me so close to my clients that they often think of themselves as family. That sort of connection is one of the reasons I love my work."
"A Brief Plan for the "Me Space"" Eureka Reporter 03.29.06 ""I’m laying in a hot spring-fed stream,” Christy said. “The water rolls around me as I watch the clouds pass above.” I have asked her to visualize using the water room on the “Me Space” floor plan they are reviewing."
"My Space, Chapter 2: Building the Perfect Shower" Eureka Reporter 03.22.06 "For Christy and Kevin’s ‘Me Space’, the shower enclosure will be the place to go everyday not just for cleansing themselves but for the relaxation and rejuvenation as well."
"Imagining a Better Place" Eureka Reporter 03.15.06 "To make the names more descriptive of the use, I have renamed the great room to the “We Space” and the master suite as the “Me Space."
"Defining Your Home's Character" Eureka Reporter 03.08.06 "“This is what makes old buildings interesting to me,” said rock musician and avant-garde artist Brian Eno. “I think that humans have a taste for things that not only show that they have been through a process of evolution, but which also show they are still a part of one. They are not dead yet.”."
"The Continuing Story of the Door" Eureka Reporter 03.01.06 "The doors featured in these photos belong to Linda and Fred Sunquist. They picked out the designs for the doors and had a local cabinetmaker do the work."
"DOORS-Our Humble Guardians Should Give Us More" Eureka Reporter 02.22.06 "Nothing says more than a door. In its simplest form, it either invites us in or keeps us out."
"The Lighted Path on the Search for Enlightenment" Eureka Reporter 02.15.06 "Light is more important than many of us know. It is responsible for our health, mood, and motivation."
"The Life Style Brand: Bringing Meaning to Your Life" Eureka Reporter 02.07.06 "Style is what encourages a life to be led that is beyond passive acceptance and endurance. Style is what we create when we use our capacities as designers to shape ourselves, and the communities in which we live."
"Creating Spaces, Building Fences" Eureka Reporter 02.01.06 "The purpose of the wall was to enclose a Japanese garden. Contrary to popular perception, Japanese gardens celebrate imperfection by encouraging it in a design characterized by its organic organization of form."
"Quality of Life Starts with a Quality You" Eureka Reporter 01.18.06 "A home gym can easily co-exist with other uses when you build the components into wall cabinetry. Any room that has 6 feet of blank wall is suitable."
"Daylighting: Part Two" Eureka Reporter 01.11.05
"A New Column: Design for Life" Eureka Reporter 11.13.05 "My goal is to empower you to look at your home, your garden and your living style with a fresh eye –and to have fun creating quality of life."