SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Essays on place, perception, and the built environment

Monday, March 31, 2014

The Vivid Frame

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Henry Mercer’s Fonthill Castle, Doylestown, PA (photo by Jared Kofsky used under the   Creative Commons   Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unp...
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Saturday, March 29, 2014

March AIA-SWO Chapter Meeting Recap

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The March AIA-Southwestern Oregon chapter meeting featured Stephanie Jennings , AICP, who is the City of Eugene’s grants manager for th...
Saturday, March 22, 2014

Architecture is Awesome #3: Wabi-sabi

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Woven wood fence at the Portland Japanese Garden (photo by me) This is another in my   series   of posts inspired by   1000 Awesome T...
Saturday, March 15, 2014

About Architectural Education

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I attended architecture school during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The challenges faced by the profession and the schools of archite...
Sunday, March 9, 2014

Think Big, Start Small, Make It Happen

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Conceptual design for the new Eugene City Hall (sketch by Rowell Brokaw Architects) I attended one of the two open house events last ...
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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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