SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Essays on place, perception, and the built environment

Sunday, May 31, 2020

EIFS with Drainage

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The month of May treated us with not one but two virtual meetings of the Willamette Valley Chapter of the Construction Specifications Inst...
Saturday, May 23, 2020

Remembering Ken Nagao

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Ken Nagao (1939-2020) Eugene architect and community leader Ken Nagao died unexpectedly this past Monday afternoon. He was scheduled to s...
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Saturday, May 16, 2020

Home Office

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My wife and I purchased our first and only, now forever home thirty-one years ago. It’s a very modest one-story ranch house, built in 1952 w...
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Saturday, May 9, 2020

Jeffrey Commons

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Rendering of Jeffrey Commons (Aligned Architecture) The May 2020 meeting of the Willamette Valley Chapter of the Construction Specifications...
Sunday, May 3, 2020

Eugene and the Menace of the Black Swan

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( Photo by Marvin Rozendal on Unsplash ) In his 2007 book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable , author Nassim Nichola...
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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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