Rate My Professor Katherine Ashe

Katherine Ashe is a Senior Lecturer in the Fremantle School of Architecture at the University of Notre Dame Australia, where she leads the Design Stream with Dr. Simon Pendal and Foreground Fremantle in partnership with the City of Fremantle. Prior to joining Notre Dame, she held the position of Senior Lecturer and Chair of Architectural Methods at Curtin University. As co-director of the award-winning architectural practice vittinoAshe, co-founded with Marco Vittino, Ashe has been engaged in teaching, practice, and study of architecture in Western Australia since 1996. Her work emphasizes diverse approaches to architectural design, fostering creative diversity through institutional relationships, practice collaborations, research, and education. Drawing from her childhood in remote arid regions of Australia, she collaborates with Traditional Owners to integrate Traditional Knowledge into architectural and academic practices. Her design studios cultivate individual generative processes that produce place- and history-embedded architectural propositions. The vittinoAshe studio specializes in high-quality architecture across project scales, exploring themes such as ageing in place, downsizing, and heritage fabrics.