SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Essays on place, perception, and the built environment

Sunday, August 30, 2020

Wakanda

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Image source: https://marvelcinematicuniverse.fandom.com/wiki/Golden_City?file=Wakandan_City.png Sadly, we lost the talented actor Chad...
Sunday, August 23, 2020

Melancholy

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Melancholy of a Beautiful Day, by Giorgio de Chirico (1913) My fear of potentially contracting the SARS-CoV-2 virus—fueled by unremittin...
Sunday, August 16, 2020

Essential Projects

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Many “nonessential” businesses scaled back or suspended operations back in March when the magnitude of the COVID-19 outbreak became apparent...
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Sunday, August 9, 2020

The Four C’s

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The Construction Specifications Institute recently announced the publication of the 3 rd edition of its Project Delivery Practice Guide ...
Sunday, August 2, 2020

Architecture is Awesome #21: Symmetry

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Leonardo da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man,” representing symmetry in the human body (and by extension, that of the natural universe) This is anot...
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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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