SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Essays on place, perception, and the built environment

Sunday, July 26, 2020

Influences: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe An earlier blog entry of mine, “ Genealogy of Influence ,” promised a series of posts about the architects and th...
Sunday, July 19, 2020

Collaboration

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New Edison Elementary School, view from south (Mahlum Architects with Robertson/Sherwood/Architects pc) As a smallish architectural prac...
Sunday, July 12, 2020

Architecture Beyond Earth

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The International Space Station (all photos by NASA/public domain) I grew up a witness to the Space Race, to astonishingly rapid advanceme...
Sunday, July 5, 2020

Play On!

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KIDSPORTS is now operating summer multisport camps for first to eighth-graders in its new home at Civic Park . The opening of the new faci...
Friday, July 3, 2020

Transition, Preview, Slow Reveal

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Mercer Museum (photo by Bestbudbrian / CC BY-SA ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 )) It’s time once again for another install...
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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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