SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Essays on place, perception, and the built environment

Sunday, October 9, 2016

Influences: Bing Thom

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Bing Thom (1940-2016)   An earlier blog entry of mine, “ Genealogy of Influence ,” promised a series of posts about the architects an...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016

Moving Forward

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  AIA-Southwestern Oregon’s Committee on Local Affairs (CoLA), of which I’m a member, penned the following letter to the mayor, city c...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

CLT Road Trip

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Photo source: http://www.apawood.org/cross-laminated-timber Save the afternoon and early evening of October 12 for a chartered bus tri...
Sunday, September 18, 2016

Community Design Handbook

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Back in 2013, I wrote a blog post about the City of Eugene’s effort to develop a broad set of non-regulatory design principles and guide...
Sunday, September 11, 2016

Cascadia Green Building Council – Eugene Branch Survey

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Formed in 2006, the Cascadia Green Building Council – Eugene Branch’ s mission is to generate momentum toward a sustainable built enviro...
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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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