SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Essays on place, perception, and the built environment

Sunday, August 28, 2016

Response to Known Purposes and Needs

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Mercado Municipal de São Paulo by FlaviaC ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 ) via Wikimedia Commons It’s time for anoth...
Sunday, August 21, 2016

Let’s Fix Construction

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I’ve said it before : Change is a constant in architecture and construction. If anything, the pace of this change is accelerating. We all...
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Sunday, August 14, 2016

The Murals of Eugene

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  Colorful street murals have transcended their guerilla art and graffiti roots to become a broadly accepted, mainstream means to tel...
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Sunday, August 7, 2016

Worst Buildings of the Last 125 Years

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For its upcoming special 125th anniversary issue in September, Architectural Record convened an independent panel to select the best 125 bu...
Sunday, July 31, 2016

Praxis Portland 2016

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Portland CSI is hosting an unprecedented 2-day concrete symposium August 26-27. Representatives from the specifications community along ...
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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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