SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Essays on place, perception, and the built environment

Monday, May 29, 2017

Picturesque Rustic

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Wallowa Lake Lodge (all photos by me)   My wife and I recently returned from a much-needed five-day vacation in northeastern Oregon’s ...
Saturday, May 27, 2017

Curtain Call

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The now-removed Hult Center’s Blackberry Curtain depicts a cloudy Oregon sky over blackberry bushes (photo source: the Hult Center for th...
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Sunday, May 21, 2017

Associate Director of Facilities Management and Planning

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  I happen to be a member of Lane Community College's hiring committee seeking to identify a new Associate Director of Facilities Ma...
Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Eugene Parklet Competition: Details

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Parklet design by Gensler (photo by Lydia Thompson/NPR)     I have more information now regarding the Eugene Parklet Competition I fi...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

The Fine Grain of Cultural Diversity

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Kite Flying by Suzuki Harunobu , 1766 ( Metropolitan Museum of Art ) Architecture often mirrors the culture or cultures that give rise...
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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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