SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Essays on place, perception, and the built environment

Saturday, May 31, 2008

Town and Gown

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Deady Hall - Photo by Erik Bishoff “Many university students were foreigners with exotic manners and dress who spoke and wrote Latin, the l...
Thursday, May 22, 2008

May AIA-SWO Chapter Meeting Recap

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For our May chapter meeting, members who attended got two excellent presentations for the price of one: Our first speaker was Ilene Aleshire...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008

The Heart of the Valley

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AIA-SWO Executive Director Don Kahle and I drove north on Monday for a lunch meeting with about a dozen of our professional colleagues whos...
Saturday, May 17, 2008

Authenticity

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What does it mean for architecture to be authentic? That authenticity is a virtue and necessary for making good architecture seemed reasonab...
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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Portland Courtyard Housing Design Competition

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Design competitions are alive and well: The City of Portland recently sponsored an ideas competition to explore how courtyard housing could ...
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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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