SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Essays on place, perception, and the built environment

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Finish Strong: Octagon Update

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Interior of the Octagon.   Will Dixon , AIA provided another update last week about progress on renovation of the Octagon, Eugene’s...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

Adjudicating Architectural Significance

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Eugene City Hall awaits its fate (my photo)   Earlier this year , Otto Poticha , FAIA, challenged his colleagues in the local architec...
Monday, September 22, 2014

The Center of Gravity

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The Lane County Farmers' Market bustles on a sunny Saturday afternoon in downtown Eugene (my photo)   If we’re fortunate, we may l...
Saturday, September 13, 2014

Rosaria Flores Hodgdon (1922-2014)

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Rosaria Hodgdon   All of us can recall the amazing teachers who left indelible marks on our lives. Their brilliance commanded our re...
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Saturday, September 6, 2014

Register-Guard Insert

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I previously reported big news about the 2014 AIA-SWO People’s Choice Awards , specifically that its display and associated voting will...
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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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