SW Oregon Architect Emeritus

Essays on place, perception, and the built environment

Sunday, May 29, 2022

Innocence Lost

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  (Photo credit: VOA, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons)   The terrifying familiarity this past week of yet another mass shooting at a sc...
Saturday, May 21, 2022

Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet: I

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Ida H. and Frank L. Chambers House (my photo) This is the next in my  Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet  series of blog posts, the focus of each ...
Saturday, May 14, 2022

Stay ON the Grass

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  Stay ON the Grass prototype installation, August 2021 The 2020 outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic struck suddenly, disrupting the routine a...
Sunday, May 8, 2022

Corvallis Museum In-Person Tour

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  After two years absent of the opportunity to visit noteworthy local building projects, AIA Oregon and/or the Willamette Valley Chapter of ...
Saturday, April 30, 2022

Special Parts

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  Saloon windows, Fonthill Castle; design by Henry Chapman Mercer (photo from the Mercer Museum & Fonthill Castle website ). Fonthill ha...
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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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