SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Essays on place, perception, and the built environment

Sunday, December 26, 2021

Tempus Fugit

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  Photo by Matt Barrett on Unsplash The flight of time never seems as fast as when we prepare to turn the calendar at each year’s end. De...
Sunday, December 19, 2021

Architecture w/Stewart

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  YouTube’s algorithm is unnervingly effective at suggesting which videos I am most likely to find interesting. My viewing history and prefe...
Sunday, December 12, 2021

The Farmers Market Pavilion and Plaza

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  Farmers Market Pavilion - view from 8th looking north (this and other renderings by FFA Architecture + Interiors) Just a brief blog entry ...
Sunday, December 5, 2021

I’m a Jack of All Trades and a Master of None

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Tools of the trade from a simpler time. One of the reasons I enjoy being an architect is because what I do is so multifaceted. Every project...
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...
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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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