SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Essays on place, perception, and the built environment

Sunday, November 28, 2021

Architecture is Awesome #23: Walls

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“Architecture appears for the first time when the sunlight hits a wall. The sunlight did not know what it was before it hit a wall.” Louis K...
Sunday, November 21, 2021

Compensatory Response Families

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Bryant Park, New York (my photo) Once again, my weekend obligations preclude me from dedicating time to an original blog post. Thankfully, s...
Sunday, November 14, 2021

Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet: H

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  The Hult Center for the Performing Arts (photo by Cacophony via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 2.5, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php...
Sunday, November 7, 2021

Nostalgia

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The Glenwood Restaurant (Google Street View screen capture) Our sentimentality for the past, particularly for times with happy personal asso...
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Saturday, October 30, 2021

2021 People’s Choice Award Winners

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This past Wednesday evening, the American Institute of Architects, Oregon Chapter/Eugene Section (AIA Eugene), in collaboration with the Wil...
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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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