SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Architecture and urban design in Oregon's southern Willamette Valley

Sunday, July 13, 2025

What Makes Eugene, Eugene?

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Hanging out in downtown Eugene's Park Blocks on a summer Saturday afternoon (all photos by me unless noted otherwise). Eugene doesn’t fi...
Sunday, July 6, 2025

Influences: Leon Krier (1946–2025)

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  Leon Krier (photo by  Rggv, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) I cannot say that ...
Sunday, June 29, 2025

Architecture is Awesome: #40 Light and Shadow

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Photo by Mateusz Butkiewicz on Unsplash This is another in my series of posts inspired by 1000 Awesome Things , the Webby Award-winning bl...
Sunday, June 22, 2025

Compelling Perspectives on Eugene’s Housing Crisis

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The Station House, by the Obie Companies Like many others in our community, I’ve watched Eugene’s housing crisis unfold over the years with ...
Sunday, June 15, 2025

On Architecture, Meaning, and the Responsibility of Creation

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  VA Roseburg Protective Care Unit In my last post , I wrote about the perspective that comes with stepping away from daily practice and how...
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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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