SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Architecture and urban design in Oregon's southern Willamette Valley

Sunday, September 7, 2025

Structure and Signification

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I purchased a copy of Five Architects during my first year in architecture school, way back in 1977. The book, a slim but influential volum...
Sunday, August 31, 2025

Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet: W

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  The Willcox Building, originally the First Congregational Church, located at 492 East 13th Avenue in Eugene (all photos by me). This is th...
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Sunday, August 24, 2025

Architecture is Awesome #41: Ceilings Worth Looking Up To

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A section of the Sistine Chapel ceiling ( Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36772) This is another in my  serie...
Sunday, August 17, 2025

2.MO

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One of the latest renderings of "2.MO," the University of Oregon's future second indoor practice facility (all images here by ...
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Sunday, August 10, 2025

The Architecture of a Print Legacy

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Sitting in our garage, boxed and staged for delivery: an archive of architectural thought spanning five decades. For nearly fifty years, I’v...
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Randy Nishimura, AIA Member Emeritus
I am a retired architect living in Eugene, Oregon. After four-plus decades in practice, I stepped away from the drafting board but not from thinking (and writing) about architecture—what it means, why it matters, and how it continues to surprise and challenge me.
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