SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Essays on place, perception, and the built environment

Friday, November 29, 2019

What’s in a Name?

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(Images from the Engage Eugene website) “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet.”  (Wil...
Sunday, November 24, 2019

Out with the Old and in with the New

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The new Hayward Field under construction, November 24, 2019 (photos by me) Today’s edition of The Register-Guard featured two front-...
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Sunday, November 17, 2019

Civic Park Update

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Aerial view of the Civic Park site by Meadowhawk Imagery (all other photos by me). The phoenix-like rising of Civic Park from the as...
Sunday, November 10, 2019

Private Good and Public Space

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Eugene (image from the Community Design Handbook ) Civil interest is commonly associated in this country with individual life, libert...
Sunday, November 3, 2019

Carl J. Oslund (1947 – 2019)

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Carl Oslund I lost a brilliant collaborator, and more importantly a good friend, to cancer very recently. It was my privilege to know...
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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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