SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Essays on place, perception, and the built environment

Saturday, June 27, 2020

COVID-19 Safety in Construction

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The surge of COVID-19 cases during the past couple weeks is a wake-up call for all of us. Unfortunately, it appears life with the virus wi...
Sunday, June 21, 2020

Influences: Le Corbusier

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Le Corbusier An earlier blog entry of mine, “ Genealogy of Influence ,” promised a series of posts about the architects and theorists wh...
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Sunday, June 14, 2020

Corner Stores

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Park Grocery, Vancouver, B.C. (photo from the City of Vancouver Archives) The building in the old photograph above figured prominently d...
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Sunday, June 7, 2020

A Moral Obligation

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Black Lives Matter rally, Eugene, May 31, 2020 (photo by Melissa Nolledo) I published last week’s blog post with some trepidation. I chose...
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...
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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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